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Show I POLICE UnEAKTH I When Confronted With Proof the Proprietors of Montana Loan Of- fice Produce Over 300 Worth of Loot Stolen From Four or H Five Salt Lake Residences Raid Solves Many Burelaries H in Two Utah Cities. H D. Kreinez and A. Pappa, the pro- prietors of the Montana Loan office. H arrested on the, charge of obtaining H stolen property were released this H mornSng on -$600 bond each. The bond was furnished by A. L. Kohn, prbpric-H prbpric-H tor of tho Kohn Liquor company. H According to the statements given I out by tho 3horlff's office, there can H bo no doubt of the guilt of Kreinez and I Pappa. It is thought that the Mon-. H tana Loan office has been used as a H fence 'by Osrden and Salt Lako crooks H for the past year and that many H thousand dollars worth of loot has H ! been handled by the two men. Among H tho stolen good's confiscated from tho H Twenty-All fth street store at the time H of the raid are many pieces of jewelry I -which wilL doubtless be identified as I having been stolen from homes in this city. ' Among the loot is a gold locket up-H up-H ! on the inside of which is engraved, I ( "From Grandmothor." It is evident I J that tho locket one time held a plc-I plc-I j tire. probably of the donor. The H trinket, with 'its touch of sentiment, however, has been rudely broken by tho thieves or "fence" so that It now I has only tho trade value of gold. All I of the rings, pins and other pieces I of jewelry have been mutilated al-I al-I t most beyond recognition. I Tho time for -the preliminary hear-H hear-H ing of the two pawn brokers has not "been definitely set, but it is likely H that they will bo arraigned during the i early part of next week. ! The proprietors of the Montana I Loan office at WO Twenty-fifth street wore arreBted last evening when 6f-flcera 6f-flcera unearthed moro than $350 worth of jewelry and silverware which had u been taken from Salt Lake City dur- I I injj a series of daring robberies com- I mitted there during tho past few I months. I An investigation was started by Salt H Lake and Ogdon officers when A. J. Hammond, who was arrosted when caught in the act of robbing a house Thursday afternoon, confessed to a IBerles of robberies and told tho officers of-ficers that ho had disposed of tho stolen goods at a "fence" in this city. D. Kreinez and A. Pappa, proprlo-; proprlo-; tors of the Montana, refused to ac- knowledge having received stolen goods from tho head of the burglar I gang until Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp and Chief of Police S. M. Barlow made a I trip to Salt Lake and brought Hammond Ham-mond to this oity. When faced by their accuser he Montana 'dealers, came across and produced more than $300 worth of loot, which was hidden In various parts of the store. While making a hurried search of the place the police made discoveries which may throw eome light on ainum- I ber qf robberleB committed in thlscity. j In the basement of the store was' 1 found burled a number of new hats, shoes and other articles of wearing j apparel which the offlcore believe J were Btolen from freight cars. I The confesnion f rora Hammond was j secured by tho Salt Lako officers , through Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Davis, who received much stolen property from Hammond and his partners. Davis is proprietor of a little grocery store and the officers found ?S0O worth of loot ' concealed in a coal house at the rear ! of the store. It is claimed that there was a wapon load of stolen property, i among which were a number of ar- 1 tides believed to have been taken from Ogden homes.. When Sheriff Sharp, Chief Barlow and Lieutenant Hempel came to this city last evening and informed the local lo-cal officers of Hammond's confession I regarding the goods which he h.ad cached here, Chief T. E. Browning, Captain J. F. Peiyier and the other of-, fleers at once suspected tho Mon-. tana loan office, one of the proprle-1 tors having been previously caught in several irregular deals. Kreinez and Pappa at flrBt denied any knowledge of Hammond or th'e stolen goods and finally tho Salt Lako crook was sent for. The officers also , threatened to get out a search war-, war-, rant. Sheriff Sharp and Captain C, C. Brown remained at the Montana stor and gave tho proprietors no opportunity op-portunity to dispose of the stolen prop-I prop-I erty. ' Before Hammond arrived the proprietors pro-prietors of tho loan office unearthed 1 a shoe box filled with silverware which had been bent and pounded, ready for tho melting poL Hammond i Identified this sllvorware as being , about one-third of the amount of slmi-' slmi-' lar loot which he had brought to tho store during the paBt six months, his j operations In conjunction with the j Montana having started last Novem- , ber. i When tho daring daylight burglar 1 faced Kreinez. who seems to be the , leader in the Montana partnership, and told the officers of the loot which he 1 had cached at the loan office, the pro' prietors went to different parts of tho store and produced two automatic revolvers, re-volvers, which Hammond had mentioned. men-tioned. He identified them as property prop-erty which he had stolen. After protesting that this waa all Kreinez, under threats that his Btoro would be thoroughly searched, went to a box of shirts on a shelf aud produced produc-ed a small pocketbook which was found to contain an assortment of rings, lockets and more than a hun- dred other pieces of Jewelry. Hammond Ham-mond Identified all this as loot which he had brought to tho 6tore. Ho also stated that there should be a half-dozen watches and throe diamonds. dia-monds. Tho Montana proprietors allowed al-lowed the officers to go through the contents of their safe, but Hammond could not ldontlfy any of tho watches or diamonds as those which ho had cached at the store. The number of every watch In the place was taken by the officers In order to assist them Identifying other of the property which "may have been stolen. When informed that thev wore un der arrest for receiving stolen property, proper-ty, Kreinez and Pappa asked to romaln at the store all night instead of going to tho city jail. This would . have been granted, under cpndltlon that an officer remain In the place with them, but when this was proposed thoy made a strenuous argument for bonds. This was denied them Inst night and at 11 o'clock they wero locked lock-ed In separate colls at the city Jail It Is tho Intention of the authorities to make a careful search of the store In tho belief that other stolen property will be unearthed The hats and shoes found burled In tho basement were taken from what is believed to be a long trench containing a large amount of goods. Hammond denied that any of the goods which he had taken to the Montana Mon-tana had been stolen In this city. While in the store lost eveninc the tall burglar stated that he had spent several weeks in Ogden, but most of the timo he spent In the gambling resorts re-sorts and was never off Twenty-fifth street. Ho said that all of the goods which he had taken to the loan office was property stolen from the four or flvo places which he had robbed In Salt Lake. |
