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Show jj ADMITS HE ROBBED TVO AT GUN'S POINT Provo, Jam 23. Thomas Corbett, the lS-year-old boy on parole from the State Industrial school at Ogden, w-0.0 was arrested Friday on a charge of having held up Jacob Albertson, 70 years old, at Spanish Fork, has confessed con-fessed to the officers that he hcdl up an old man in Eureka about a week ago aud robbed him of $23 in money, a revolver and a pair of gloves. Corbett says that he found the old man alone in a cabin near one of the Tintic mines. After entering, Corbett , took the gun away from the aged man, who, ho says made no resistance. Then Corbett forced his victim to give him the money and the gloves. Corbett held Albertson up with the same gun, but got nothing. Albert-son Albert-son recognized him and informed the police. Corbett was arrested a few hours afterwards and has been iu the county jail, awaiting the action of the courL |