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Show SHERIFF ON TRAIL OF BOX CAR ROBBERS. Provo, May 2. Sheriff George T Judd and Chief of Polico Wllford F Giles loft hero this mornlnrj for" Green River, taking with them G. A. Johnson John-son and Georgo McCoy Johnson will be turned over to Sheriff Keltor at Price. McCoy Is being taken to Green River either as a witness or will later bo charged with burglarizing and robbing rob-bing box cars on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad between here and Green River When taken into custody a few days ago, McCoy hnd In his possession a small wagonload of merchandise, some of which had boon taken out of freight enrs near tho oastern border of thla state, it Is charged. McCoy sayo he purchased tho goods from a railroad crow at G-cen River, and tolls a story that, if true, leads the officers of-ficers and railroad agents to believe that there Is an organized gang of railroad employes, who break open box cars en route from the east Tho goods obtnlned in that way aro sold to peddlers and through thorn disposed dis-posed of, It is believed. If tho story told by McCoy Is substantiated sub-stantiated when he Is Uiken before the mon whom he says ho bought the goods of at Green River, the officers expoct to immediately arrest mon by wholesale. It Is said here that a dozen or more employes of the railroad rail-road company are involved, and from tho fncts so far gleaned by special agonts and tho county officers Investigating, Inves-tigating, it Is believed that McCoy and two or threo other mon who have been traveling through the county peddling merchandise aro used to dispose dis-pose of the loot from freight cars. Among tho goods in McCoy's possession pos-session when arrested were six boxes of cigars, two one-pound cads of high-class high-class tobacco, two five-pound boxes of tobacco, ono dozon brushes, six pairs of ovoralls and jumpers, a roll of new bedding and a suitcase fillod with notions. no-tions. Some of tho articles in Mc-Cov's Mc-Cov's bundjes nnswer the description of 'goods stolen from cars while sidetracked side-tracked here in Provo about a month ago. In fact, tho officers say. it is a common thing to find freight cars have beeu broken open and goods stolen from them all along tho lino from Salt Lako to Greou River, and even In Colorado. |
