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Show THIEF IS CADGflT AFTER LONG CHASE Calagry. Alta. Julv 31. Pursued for four months through tho wilds of northern Canada by members of the Northwest mounted police. Will Ropp, said by the authorities to be the most notorious horse rustler and cattle thief in the western country, has been apprehended and Is In the barracks here today awaiting trial. Tho chase covered nearly 2,000 miles and was remark-able for to persistency with which tho police followed tho trail of the fugitive through tho trackless uorth country. Ropp, tired of being hunted, finally gavo up and confessed to a list of offensos which was a revolatlon evou to tho officers. Ills confession tells in detail of several hundred crimes and Ropp adds the statement that ho probably has committed as many more, details of which he haB forgotten. |