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Show GIGANTIC STEAL UNCOVERED. Theft of Thousands of Dollars Worth of Merchandise from Railroad. Livingston, Mont. What is proving to be one of the most collossal steals ever perpetrated on a railway company com-pany in this state was discovered Saturday, Sat-urday, February 6, by the force employed em-ployed in the sheriff's office in thia city, when twelve persons were placed under arrest, charged with stealing large quantities of merchandise in transit on the Northern Pacific railway. rail-way. Although the investigation has just begun, more than $15,000 worth of merchandise has been recovered. It is stated by the officers that probably prob-ably forty or fifty persons will be implicated im-plicated in the robberies before the investigation in-vestigation is completed. It is understood that the robberies have been going on for some time and that an organized gang of trainmen have been engaged in the work. The arrests were made as the result re-sult of a tip that is believed to have been given Sheriff McCue by a woman wo-man in the case, who fell out with a certain member of the gang. |