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Show "CROSSLAND SENTENCED T0JAIL Robert Crossland, the man arrested arrest-ed Thursday night as a suspect In tho attempted robbery of the Iowa rooming room-ing house, wns arraigned In Police court this morning on a charge of petit larceny and sentenced to soro twenty days In the city prison. When arrested, Crossland was found to be enrrying a heavy slung-shot, slung-shot, made from a piece of large railroad rail-road nut and a pioce of strap. Asked why ho carried with him this weapon, weap-on, Crossland, who is but nineteen years of ago, told a story of the vie lousnoss of certain railroad officers with whom he had come In contact and stated that It was to protect hlm-solf hlm-solf from these watchmen that ho had made the slung-shot. He said that be was walking along the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line tracks on his way from Salt Lake to Ogdcn and, as lie came into the local yards, ho met ono of the watchmen of tho company. Tho watchman drove him from the company's com-pany's premises by beating him over the head with a club. To protect himself him-self from a Blmllar assault, Cross-land Cross-land said, he had made tho weapon which the officers found on him when arrosted Crossland was in no way connoct-ed connoct-ed with tho attempted robbery of the Iowa house, his innocence of this crime being discoverod after his arrest. ar-rest. The arresting otflqer, however, how-ever, yearned that he had stolen a shirt from a clothesline In another part of the city and it was for this crime that ho was arraigned and sentenced. |