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Show CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN UTAH COUNTY Provo, Aug -28. Sheriff " George Judcl, Probation Officer B. F. Roper and special agents of tho Salt Lakp Route and the Denver & Rio Grande have exerted themselves for the last two weeks in an effort to apprehend a crowd of hoodlums who are In thc habit of throwing jocks at passlnq trains." Car windows have been broken brok-en anj considerable other damogo done by these boys who, It is alleged, congregate near "the crossing Just north of Provo and when a passenger train comes along bombard It with rocks. Qulnten Reader, 11 yoars of age, was arrested today by Probation Officer Offi-cer B F. Poper and wllL.bc charged with the offense. Young Reedcr has confessed, to his- part In tho affair 'and thq officers are of the opinion that he win give the names of his companions when (ho boy is bro'ught before the Juvenile court. The officers- are also Investigating the wholesale raids and destruction of meloa -pat6hes In Lake Viow and Vineyard. Mad3 Johnson, a farmer of take View, lost eighty-five melons In ono night. Thc thieves went through thc patch and plugged every melon they found, thc ripe ones the carried a why and left the unripe melons to rot. George Maclscn's melon patch was also visited" "and 'more than i wagon load of sthe fruit destroyed thore In fact, the officers sav, all the -melon, patches in the neighborhood of Lake View look as If an army of plantation M?r?QHta4cJVsaflHHMBB darkles had been turned loose in them The officers are also after coal thieves, 'who steal coal from passing fi eight oars It is said that more than twenty' tons of coal lme been taken: by different pangd and Individuals Individ-uals between Sprlngville and Lohl within the last thirty days It has been ascertained, says Mr. Roper, that in somo Instance where coal has been taken it has been done with the consent and connivance of the trainmen train-men In chnrie. Special Agent H. M. Miller of tho Salt Lake Routo, who is now south of here, will retur" tomorrow morning morn-ing and wl?h Sheriff Judd and Probation Proba-tion Officer Roper will go over the route and round up thpse under suspicion sus-picion They expect to make arrests by wholesale within thc next few days. It seems from what thc officers say there Is a wave of crime sweeping oer the county, overv offense from petit larceny to burglary being com mil ted promiscuously In Provo and lTiah county. Ono young man Averv Klrkham, 17 years of age, of Lehl, has been hound over for tilal in the district court on a charge of undue Irjtimncy with a girl cf 1C 3'cars old, and County Attorney Jacob Evans is busv today preparing five complaints ojralnst ra many young men of Proo, all accused of statutory crimes with I irl3 residing here. |