Show FOUR BOYS young lads under fifteen years of age confess to having committed various robberies well you have run us down at last aind nd now I 1 guests guess its me for the jug A hardened criminal who has hag spent most moat of his life burglarizing robbing and breaking all the other laws of the land would not have assumed an attitude of greater indifference and abandon when arrested yet the speech was made by a boy not yet fifteen years old and nd he was waa a boy of abis valley oh I 1 I 1 lie he shame of it vaughn shaffer ray mccarrell fred doming deming and howard doming deming were out behind the episcopal church last sunday afternoon calmly dividing the spoils of their latest burglary when city marshal richardson swooped down upon them one of the boys boya declared it w aa all up with him and signified that he would offer no resistance but that he would go quietly and take his medicine he squeal not he he was waa not that kind lie he could not afford to display any weakness that would be out of the question for a boy who had broken into several stores and unlocked others with the keys he carried in his pockets A hero of nick carter would stand pat an old sleuth or a deadwood dick would suffer his right arm to be cut off before he would give in the vernal boyas boy was just as brave and had just as much of that iron nerve squeal why only little girls or babies would do that bor k or several days burglaries had been committed in various portions of the city and the officials were at sea as to who were the criminals operating along seeh extensive lines in last fridays paper was an item regarding the robberies of the consolidated machine wagon company and james mae mac knights wine cellar after that the wallace blacksmith shop was entered and two buckets of red paint were stolen the outhouses out houses on the tabernacle grounds fainted sunday morning St Staley aleys 8 saloon was the seen of action and half dozen bottles of beer carried away sunday afternoon there was a big haul of jewelry pocketbooks marbles and 5 in money at the store of ja X W davis co soon after their arrest behind the episcopal church the boys admitted that they were the robbers when arrested one of the boys had a bunch of keys in his pocket it is said that he was seen buying padlocks on one or two occasions and the theory is that he made the purchases of the locks in order to get the keys As was stated before some of the store doors w ere unlocked and a very natural conclusion would be that some isome of these keys were used |