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Show 'BURGLARS TAKEN i WHILE AT WORK i A clever and well-prepared setup , for a burglary anil .-afe-cracking job I in the Jefferson Mercantile store j was even more cleverly frustrated Sunday night and the probability is I that the two offenders will soon be j on their way to the state peniten- tirary. Frank Moore, 27, colored, and George Daniels, 21, the two men who were apprehended in the act of breaking break-ing into the store, were hailed before Justice Herbert Nichols Monday forenoon. fore-noon. Waiving preliminary hearing, the defendants pleaded not guilty to first degree burglary charges and were bound over to action of the district dis-trict court, with bail set at $3000 each. The two offenders have indicated a willingness to plead guilty to the lesser charge of second degree burglary, bur-glary, it is understood, and this they may be permitted to do since the penalty for second degree from one to ten years will probably hold them behind the bars about as long as the major charge, the Utah pardon board being altogether too lenient in such matters. A suspicious noise in the vicinity of one of the skylights of th; Jefferson Jef-ferson store at about 10:20 o'clock Sunday evening led Louie Sales, one of the employes of the store, to report re-port the matter to George Jefferson, principal owner, who lost no time in eetting in touch with Deputy Sheriff Ted Kronholm and then coming to the store himself, parking his car in such a way as to flood a large area in thf-rear thf-rear of the store with light. Wallace and Ross Patterson were deputized to help Kronholm but it was' not long before there was a small arrry of willing assistants, a load of C. C. C. men headed for the deserc ranie camp being included in the number. It was not long before the negro made his way down from the roof and into the waiting arms of Kronholm, who immediately hustled him off to the town jail. Daniels followed suit in short order, neither of the men making any show of resistance. An examination of the roof showed only a break of the one sky light, but a complete burglary outfit wa-; found, including a ten-pourri sledge hammer, a three-foot pinch bar. a 15-foot knotted rope wwh a hook attached at-tached to one end, a vev driver, a heavy punch, a leather ca-e of small chisels, punches and knife and saw blades and a flashlight behind the lens of which there had b3on placed a piece of paper through whijh only a pin-prick of light was emitted. The flashlight was found on the negro, ne-gro, who also dropped six blasting caps just before he was seized. On Daniels was found a crudly made but efficient brass key against which not many locks would offer resistance. resist-ance. Another examination of the roof Monday morning disclosed a quantity of dynamite and nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine mixture which very evidently evi-dently had been discarded and scattered scat-tered the night before when they found they were discovered, the presence pres-ence of explosives among the equipment equip-ment jumping the charge from second sec-ond ta first degree burglary, under the law. 1 Moore, the part-breed nigro, has been identified as having assisted with the loading of some pelts for a hide company some throe weeks ago, but under the name of Jackson. At that time he was paid by check it is understood, and he cashed the check at the Jefferson store. It is supposed that he gained, at that time, a fair knowledge of the inside of the store. |
