Show LAID ID 27 SALT LAKE HOMES FOR BOX CAR LOOT l RAilROAD MEN INVOLVED IN WH WHOlE 0 Al THEFTS I r Denver enver Rio Grande ComI Company Com Corn I pany Charges With Stealing From Cars Car 27 Homes Arc Are Raided ED with search and seizure seiz seiz- I A ARM ARMED tire ure ure warrants nine deputy sheriffs and as many special agents of the Denver Rio Grande railroad swooped down on twenty seven seven Salt Lake Lako homos homo l last night and recovered stolen property prop erty valued at more moro than 1000 With the recovery of oC tho the property a a. wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale salo dismissal of ot of ot the Denver Rio Grande Grando Is la anticipated by attaches of at the tho sheriffs sheriff's office While twenty seven homes moat of at which were those of or Denver Rio I Grande switchmen were raided by byI bythe bythe I the sheriffs sheriff's force and the railway special agents only one arrest was I made Robert Robort Phillips was arrested and will probably face faco a charge ot at I burglary Last nights night's raid was as the result of or two months' months Investigation of box car II robberies in the tho Denver Rio Grande yards ard in which everything from Cram crowbars to whisky was stolen I For the last two months the railroad company has had a a. corps of ot special I agents working on the cases Twenty seven search and seizure I warrants were issued yesterday and amt ed in the hands of deputy leDuty sheriffs The horn homes eM ma made e tho the object of oC the search for missing property were scattered from the Warm Springs to Murray and aud the officers were divided Into into half halt a dozen squads to facilitate the work A As a result of or the search practically all of or the honE homes yielded various quan- quan of ot stolen property Including foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs whisky railroad chair cushions cushIons cushIons cush cush- ions chalk and wearing apparel Deputy sheriffs declare declare- that the Denver Rio Rh Grande Grando railroad has hRs lout lort several se thousand dollars during the thelast thelast thelast last few months from box car thefts Officials of or the tho company compan have not yet decided on what course is to bo ho pursued against in hi n whoso whose homes the stolen property was found They re regard ard Phillips as ns a leader IN of ot the gang and will take steps toward prosecuting proa- proa him The others other will be dl dismissed from the service of the company and more than likely complaints will be he Issued ll against some sonic of or them charging robbery robbery rob rob- bery berJ larceny and rt receiving stolen n property It Is IR understood that other search warrants are to bo ho Issued and anc it is 18 c expected that fifty Salt Lake Lako homes home will wm vilI be Included In th the nn ring be before be- be fore tore the Investigation I is h concluded Tho deputy deput sheriffs who participated In last laRt nights night's mid raid are C. C C. C Carstell sen sell sen E. E C. C Penrose C. C E. E Wood W. W S E. E Hughes Robert Oswald Frank Ben Den Harmon Ed Davis and William Goodsell |