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Show HORSE THIEF MAY BE A BADjiAN Roy Woodard, ollas Jensen, appeared appear-ed at tho Dee-Smith livery stable on Twenty-fourth street this morning with a horso and saddle that ho offered offer-ed for sale. He asked oniy $15 for the outfit The price was so ridiculously ridicu-lously low that It led those at the barn to suspicion that the outfit had been stolen. Tho sheriff's office was notified and Deputy Ludwlg went to the barn to see the man. The deputy told the fellow ho would buy the animal at tho flgtiro named If ho would accompany him to his office, where ho would write a check for the amount When the two approached the office, labeled "Sheriff's Office.'' Woodard concluded he would not sell the animal He was too late, however, to escape the clutches of the 'law. Ho was placed under arrest, and, before ho had beon safoly landed In the cell, word camo from Bingham that the horse and saddle sad-dle had been stolen from the Clipper livery stable of Bingham Tuesday. Woodard. with his glib tongue," has already advised the officers that he was well acquainted with Abe Mur-dock, Mur-dock, the half-breed Indian horso trustier, trust-ier, who was killed a few days ar by an officer In Wasatch county, and Bud Meeks, the man who Is now being chased through eastern Utah for horso stealing The officers are inclined to think Woodard one of the gang of Uintah horse rustlers He will be ro-turned ro-turned to Salt Lake county officials this afternoon. |