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Show YOUNG MAN A BOX CAR T1EF Salt Lake City, Sept. 1. S. A. Sutton, until " Wednesday gou-'eral gou-'eral v'ardmaster of the Denver & HIo Granilo in Salt Lake, is locked up in tho city jail charged with being tho leader of a gang of box car burglars which has stolen thousands of dollars' dol-lars' worth of merchandise consigned to local stores and to San Francisco Francis-co firms. Other arrests are expected today In what Is believed by Rio Grando officials to be tho most ox-tenslvo ox-tenslvo conspiracy over formed in tho wost to rob box cars. Sutton Is booked on tho police blotter blot-ter as G. W Holmes. The name of Holmes was given for Sutton at tho pollco station by ralroad detectives, who did not wish other members of the gang to know that Sutton was under nrreot. The former yard master mas-ter wns arrested Wednesday by Special Spe-cial Agent V. L. Snyder of tho Denver Den-ver &. Rio GrandS railroad, who has boon Investigating box car robberies In whloh, It Is alleged, Sutton was Implicated. Immediately following thp arrost of Sutton speclnl agents of tho railroad company searched Sufton's room at tho resldouce of Earl L, Swabb, 212 WeBt Second South. Thoro they dls. covered dress goods, shoes, stockings stock-ings and other articles corresponding correspond-ing with descriptions of articles stolen stol-en from box cars In tho Salt Lake yards in the last few months. At tho city Jail Sutton was confronted with tho ovldence against him. He then made a partial confession to the railroad rail-road officers, saying, however, that much of tho stuff found In his room had been purchased from various Salt Lake stores by him. Ho gave tho names of tho stores and yesterday ho was taken to these stores by Special Spe-cial Agont V. L. Snydor. In each caso It was found that not only was there no ono In the store who could Identify Sutton as the purchaser of tho goods, but In addition It was claimed by tho heads of tho departments depart-ments that the brand .of articles found in Sutton'6 ?098esHioni-had never beon carried by the stores named by Sutton. Sut-ton. Sutton came to Salt Lako about a year ago from Raton, N. M , accompanied accom-panied by a man named Dlckerson, said to have been a close friend. Sutton Sut-ton Is only 25 years old, but Is said to bo a railroad man of remarkable ability. His talonts. wore recognized by his superiors and soon after his arrival in Salt Lake he was made night yardraaster. In this position he proved himself a raan of excellent Judgment and great- ability. His excellent ex-cellent work led to his promotion to tho position of general yardmnster, a position only outranked by that ot division superintendent. On account of his youth his rapid promotion to this responslblo position Is deemed remarkable. ' Threo months ago, special agents declare, Dlckersonthe companion or Sutton who was "employed as yardman, yard-man, was caught .red-handed In the act of robbing a b'cT car. He was Immediately Im-mediately discharged from the employ em-ploy of the company, but no criminal action was brought against him. Much of the property stolen from tho box cars consisted of dross goods In shipments to local firms and from through freight cars bearing shipments ship-ments to San Francisco dry goods houses. Tho f,irst clew to Sutton's guilt, was obtained when It was learned that some women had beon seen wearing goods of the pattern reported re-ported to have been stolen. Investigation Inves-tigation resulted. In tracing tho sale of tho goods to Sutton. He was under surveillnnce for several days until tho special agents became convinced of his guilt. Then ho was arrested arrest-ed nnd his room searchod. His arrest ar-rest was kept a secret and tho men directly under S'utton thought that he was merely laying off a few days. In the pursuit of the investigations the special agents woro informed that some of the articloB stolon were disposed dis-posed of by Sutton at private sale and the rest sold through one or two "fences" about town. In the opinion opin-ion of the special agents, Sutton himself him-self did not actually rob tho box cars. They believe that some of the yardmen broke Into tho cars and that Sutton disposed of tho articles and protected tho thlevos. One of the biggest robberies of Rio Grande box cars of the year oc- currcd a few days ago, when silver-1 ware valued at $1000, consigned to tho Z. C. M. I. was stolon. Tho sllvor-warc sllvor-warc was recovered and ' two men charged with tho crime are now under un-der arrest. Special agents of the railroad rail-road aro Inclined to bollevo that tho men who stolo the silverware acted Independently of all railroad employes employ-es who nro thought to have been con-corned con-corned In tho othor robberies. Railroad agents oxpect to secure a comploto confession from Sutton that will clear up practically all of the box car robberieB in tho local yards during the last year. Sutton Is a 3lnglo man. His parents reside in Ixmisvillo, Ky. Ho has worked for several years as yardman for different railroads and until now has always had an oxcollont record wherever he has been employed. |