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Show NO EVIDENCE AGAINST TBEM That James Grlms and George Miller, Mil-ler, tlic two men held in the city prison and wanted in many parts of the country, will be turned over to the Colorado authorities to answer to the blowing of a safe at Trinidad, now seems evident, tho police having failed fail-ed to secure any evidence against the men which would Justlfv holding them in this state. While both men are retaining a stubborn silence concerning their past misdeeds, they have nevertheless made certain admissions proving them to be criminals of experience and linking link-ing their names with a number of safe robberies in different parts of the wesL It was suspected by the police that the two men had perpetrated the , robbery of the Moore crocerv on Washington nenue. Detectives Pend er nnd Pincock had Grlms In the sweat-box for more than an hour this morning endeavoring to wrench from him a confession of this crime. Grlms stated that he had nothing to do with the blowing of the Moore snfo and stuck to the story of his innocence in-nocence so vigorously that both officers offi-cers were convinced of Its truth. Grlms (Jroads going back to Colorado and stated that he would much prefer pre-fer taking his chances in tfiis stato than In Colorndo. ' If I were connected with the Moore 1 robbery," he said, "I would gladly tell of it to escape going back to Colorado." Colo-rado." Both men also positively deny any connection with tho robbery of the mall boxes in this city, although an effort has been made to draw from tbem an admission of this crime. It has been positively established that Grlms and Miller aro wanted for a safe blowing trick at Trinidad, Colo., and the robbery of the postofflce at Fort Scott, N. M. The Trinidad affair af-fair was not a postofflce robbery and the federal officials therefore have no connection with this case. Mf it is discovered that the Fort Scott robbery is moro serious than the Trinldnd crime then the men will bo taken into custody and punished by the federal authorities. If It can bo positively established that these are the men who havo committed tho numerous mailbox lobberles In the West, then they are almost certain to answer to the government, nn |