Show YOUNGSTERS LIVED IN A CAVE AND BECAME QUITE DARING broke into business houses and robbed canyon campers but were caught by police from tuesdays standard living in a cave at the mouth of ogden canyon parrot the time making raids on small candy stores and committing acts of vandalism in the tents of some of the canyon dwellers and with four charges of burglary against them billy eldredge jack drysdale and arthur ha liner three boys ranging in age from H to 17 years are at the police station the sentence of the judge of the juvenile court for their unlawful and wholly unnatural acts the stories told by the boys agree in the main and they all point to the tact that billy eldredge was the leader the organizer and planned the raids and that the other two boys did as billy directed some days agotha warehouse of H L griffin was broken into and a few bananas stolen while a great amount of malicious destroying of cheese and grapes was done the manner in which produce was destroyed ies troyed suggested that some small were the perpetrators of the deed then the candy store was entered monday morning by some one lifting tho inside latch by a point on the outside bags of candy tobacco and bottles of soda water were stolen previous entering of the candy store two in the canyon had been entered and a sack of potatoes several pans of milk and a package of rolled oats were destroyed A similarity in the deeds of vandalism proved beyond a doubt that all the mischief had been done by the same party monday the police were notified that tap twp boys were asleep in a box car that had been brought from Sal fLake officer hadlock located the car and brought the boys to the station when questioned by officer chambers they admitted they had committed the burglaries that have baffled the police for so long the story told by billy eldredge about the stealing of bananas and grapes from H L griffin and the other deeds committed by the three Is as follows going to the back entrance of the griffin storehouse billy spied a window open not far from the ground and immediately proceeded to climb through into the banana room the others followed attea eating of ohp fruit and 1 throwing two bunches on the floor they proceeded to start yUp stairs here they found a box of grapes and a small hatchet with the hatchet boys took turns in chopping up some round and long cheeses in the cellar after this filled their pockets with orange sand went over to the watering tanka on twenty sixth street to eat the latch on the door at the utahna stor ewas lifted with a stick and three entered took some candy mixed a few drinks at ano soda fountain procured a sack of tobacco and left A journey into the canyon in quest of new adventures was then undertaken they entered wo tents stole from one a gun and ransacked both from fore to aft this was on the ground owned by john lewis from the tents the three now thoroughly reckless boys went into the canyon above the lewis grove and started a fire on the side of the mountain that raged nearly all night and laid bare and lack the sides of the canyon that had been green and beautiful the ore was so fierce that three women barely escaped the flames the trio went from the canyon to salt lake and upon their return were caught by the officers such Is the tale told by billy and corroborated by the other boys at the police station juat what action will ba taken by the authorities is not certain they are too young to be sent to jail but they may bo turned over to the reform school may be they are not bad toys but simply sought adventure after tho methods of tha hero of some dime novel they had been reading |