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Show POLICE HAVE ONE OF THE BURGLARS Salt Lake City, March 30, The sagacity ot a youth whose namo the police wero unablo to secure because of the oxcltement under which he labored, resulted In tho arrest at 8 o'clock this morning by tho local police po-lice department of Moses Foster, colored, col-ored, 28 years old, who confessed within ten minutes after his arrival at pollco headquarters that bo was ono ot the trio of desporate crlmlnEls who broke into tho storo of the Clearfield Mercantile Company, at Clearfield, at 11:30 o'clock last night, and that he had BlaBhed the face and throat ot James Read, nlghtwatch-man, nlghtwatch-man, In a horrlblo manner In his effort ef-fort to escapo arrest. The polico department was notuiKd ot the burglary and the assault upon up-on the watchman, at midnight, and a cordon ot men was sent to tho nor them boundary of the city to watch all avenues of entrance, it being be-llovcd be-llovcd that the criminals had made their way in this direction. , No trace was found of them, however, how-ever, until 7:40 o'clock this morning whon an excited boy calljd polled headquarters and said that a negro without a bat had knocked at bis 'back door anil h&d asked for an old haC Tho telephono message was sent from 344 West First North .it, near the hquse where the hatleso' man had appoarod ,A good description descrip-tion was glvon ,and the youth mid that, he bolieyed that this porson had been Involved In the Clesrfleld affair, |