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Show WHOLESALE THEFT OF GAS ATTEMPTED 11'... w!lrlf;t!o theft of gasoline i.c'mI c.n .pu t at i ue! new for this .v! o:; uveixe.l a hel'ious setback V, '!;!'-.i:i . duo to the. tracking .vd.ty 'l I'. W . Hwi.ifu-ld. local rep-i rep-i esen'.a: - e if the Standard Oil coir ; a:-.y . So l:ir.o Tuesday ' lllehl thices irokc ii lo the v holes. do plant of tin S'. a !.'..! ill d"i'.'a:i, .snipped locks in d-.scrimiiKi'.ely, filled a half do.-cN -0 gallon comtsmy hauvls with 1 re, loaded these, m'iiw package .-oo. ts an.l a I-oO pump onto the Ford p.'."k.i-.--e truck, operated part of the time by Mi". Ria.tfiol.i, and departed from the town by a novum-- route which ttss however, easily discenio.i by Mi-. Uradficld the next morninc., the iru.k having been roturni-d to the plant and stripixsl of its battery in the meantime. 1 ea tng the plant the thieves aptvarenlly drove ca.st, as if going to Reaver, but turned south ar the Experimental farm and put i:t some mile.-we traveling around on the South M:iforii flat. Eventually work-Mi; work-Mi; tb.eir way back toward Milford by way of the upper ro.ul from the 'hit. t: ev skit-tool the south edee of town a::J started e-- At this point he search wa turntsl over to Sheriff Niels Jensen ami Deputy Ted Kron-rolm. Kron-rolm. who just missed catching the thieves but feun.l their ruche a short il'.-tar.Ce off ti e l:tt!e-uei roa.l lead-' irg to the o'.l charcoal oe-s near Frisco. At the cache were found ait of the stolen stuff, of a total value of about i J'. SO. less perhaps a small quantity of ir;i. usi in replenishing the thieves' car: a!o a stxvially bui'.t trailer, a bed roll, a ."0-."0 rifle an.! other camp equipment which must have been hastily abandoned when tiey --potted the officers' car in the vicinity. They ma.ie their sretaway i" -hot. i n.ier but t'"e license number of the:r car. wb.ich haJ Kvn spotte.l by the officers before they were certain of the whereabouts of t'-.e -toien stuff, has biH'n traced to the o-.vr.erh:p of C-.--'.ir City parties who,' on invest:. 'o:.. were founl ti" b-.1 o:t of t'wr.. puipot :ei!y on ti.e.r way to Ely. Whether or not the suppoe-l thieves are obi hands at the pamej the equipment four..! by the officers wou'd indicate that it had been used before in the wholesale pilfering of ',-asolir.e ,-ii.ce the trailer is specially c.-.rstructo.; to carry barrels of the size stolen while buckets found at the carop were identified by Bradfield as having ielom;ed t- some other oil company. o |