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Show POLICE NAB BOYS WHO CONFESS THEY . STOLE BICYCLES Follow inn the arrest by .Motorcycle Patrolmen Pa-trolmen Woodard and Htn-irl-kaon late jeaterday afternoon of three boya charred with stealing bicycles, the patrolmen secured se-cured confessions from tin- loys, who admitted ad-mitted many ihefts in different part of the city, and Indicated the point Hi the .fordsn river where ttiey had thrown part of thf machines. The hoys weredurned over to the Juvenile Juve-nile court, an ttiey tire not old enough to he handled by the police department, and regardicss nf the fart that the boya had admitted the thefta, the police were powerless pow-erless to hold them. The boya were re-leaned re-leaned by the Juvenile court of fir tain on their hare promises to appear befoae the Juvenile court next Monday. Owing to the fact that the police hscw no jurisdiction In the case, no record waa made of their namea and addresaea. The Juvenile court official refused to give the namea today, to-day, when told that the boya had admitted ad-mitted the thefta and that some of thv atoien wneela had been recovered. Following the arrest yesterday, the police po-lice recovered many blcvcle wheel that had been detached from the frame, i These were fmind at the home of one of the boya. Saddles, chains and handle bars are Mid to have been found at the homes of the other. The police drsagwd the river this morning, morn-ing, at a point where the boya Indicated that they had thrown parte of bicycles; Itili-i titaa muildu ura.- is nrHi,. a a...n detection, and two bicycle frames wnre brought out of the mud by the drag) hooks. - TU. bav avra id -iA hsw admltiad to. the police thai thev had stolen many bicycles, bi-cycles, and that they bad taken them to pieces, and sold the wheels for 25 and M cents each, and the handle hara and frame tor from 50 cents to $1 each. The nolle department la making earnest earn-est efforts to break up the gangs of bicycle bicy-cle thieves that are said to be operating In the city. This Is the fourth crowd of boya arrested within1 the laat few weeks on charges of stealing bicycle. Thefta of bicycles are reported to the police almost dally, and In many cases the bicycles are never found. |