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Show YOUNG MEN OUT OF JAIL Even after the charge had been changed from that of carrying concealed con-cealed weapons to one of petty lar-sony, lar-sony, sufficient evidence was not produced pro-duced to convict W. C. Denton and S. Franklin, tho Huntsville "bandits," I and the ,Yung men were given tholr liberty by Judge J. D. Murphy. " Dentorj and Franklin aro the young men who paraded the quiet streets of ' Huritavlllc with a man's size 45 Colts suspended from each of their belts and who later took possession of a bunkhouao at the Baker ranch, about three miles from tho town. Previous to their arrest by tho I sheriff's officers last Monday morn- I ing, the raon were looked, -upon by I the Huntsville people as the dreaded I Whitney brothers, horse thieveB, cat- I I tlo rustles and a half dozen otHer equally dangerous characterizations. When arrested a fur overcoat bo- longing to Ras Hansen was ifound in their possession. On this discovery was based the charge of petty lar-ceiij.- Doth eniered a plea of not gulltv to this charge and when placed on the -witness stand in their own defense de-fense thoy claimed to have found the overcoat on tho road while they were walking to the Barker ranch Saturday Satur-day evonlng. Hansen said that the coat was stolen from his horse, which he had left near a store at Huntsville. It could notbe proven that the alleged alleg-ed bandits had cut the telephone wlreB at the rauch "Watch mo heat it to a pawn shop and plant these quns," was Frank-lln's Frank-lln's comment as ho was handed the I i ii mm ' iaa pin .jjj-ua. ta-jfcj - dangerous-looking revolvers at tho conclusion of tho trial in the police court. It was proven to the satisfaction satisfac-tion of the authorities that neither of the young men are nearly so dangerous danger-ous as pictured by tho Huntsville people. peo-ple. Both are 25 years of age and they claimed to have purchased the big revolvers in this city with thc ln- j , tentlon of using them while trapping In Ogden valley this winter. |