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Show AUTO THIEVES CAPTURED I?T IDAHO ROIPE. Mr, June I. Lined up In a mw at the point of a gun held In the hsnds of an employee of the reclamation reclama-tion service. Bert Thomas of Oakland. Arthur Kelly of Chicago and Thomas ( atven of Bolee. automobile thieves, were held for several hours yeater-ditv yeater-ditv while a popae of deputy aherlffs were rushed from Poise to bring them bark to this city. They era now held t ,i pending a hearing todav. Entering the garage at the Ooodman ranch three mile weal of this Hiv i uendsv night, the thtcvea atnle the I valuable automobile of Mr. Ooodman and started icrnn the country with it. headed towards the roast, and wlih the deliberate Intention of keeping t. An acident to the engine near Kuna. and which the thivea could not mend, prevented pre-vented them from cronalng the Oregon Idaho line There they abandoned the wrecked machine and at tempi ed to escape acrnat country. I Indignant ranchess Immediately pursued pur-sued the t hie vet, and Burround-d them in the sage brush country. A member of the reclamation aervtce eventually forced them to surrender and held theni at the point of a rifle for three hours until members of tha sh-rtff s force could ar-n. ar-n. The three prisoners confessed to r plsnning to take the machine out of the state, one of them msklng the excuse that he only Intended the escapade for a Joy rid. |