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Show iiS 1BBEG II QUICK Offfi Salt L-alte Feb. 24. Fifteen minutes after they bad held up and robbed J B. Walker, Jr , 674 East First South street, John Mahoney, 23 years of age, and J Williams, 19. were captured by Detectives J. E. Woodard and J. A. Egbert and Patrolman J. B. Taylor, identified by Walker and placed behind be-hind the bars of the city jail. At 10:30 o'clock last night a call came to Desk Sergeant William Koyt-ingr Koyt-ingr from the Brigham Street pharmacy, pharm-acy, at East South Temple and E streets, that a holdup had taken place. Detectives Woodard and Egbert and 1 Patrolman Taylor raced to the address ad-dress Quickly joined by Walker, the officers toured the neighborhood. Near the intersection of East South Temple Tem-ple and Fifth East streets they wero attracted by two men, walking briskly toward town. With levelled guns the officers commanded com-manded them to stop. One of the men attempted to draw his hand from his overcoat pocket. Detective Egbert.' grasped his wrist and drew out a frontier fron-tier model Colts revoiver, fully loaded with 45-caliber black powder shells. Patrolman Taylor found a watch In the other pocket, positively identified by Walker as the one the men tore from his pocket, with four dollars in cash. In telling of the holdup, Mr. Walker said: I had just alighted from a street car and was walking south on Fifth East street when the men stepped from the shadows and said, "Throw up your hands and be quick about it." I put up my hands. One of them held the gun on me and the other went through my pockets. The.y backed away from mo as I stood there with my hands up. When they had gone half a block they dodged around the corner. Then I called Tor the police. I think the efficiency of the Salt Lake police department is being demonstrated demon-strated by catches like this. "That gun looked like a forty-centimeter cannon to me." At the city jail both youths were stripped and searched for a $10 check which,, according to Mr. Walker, they took from him, but tore into pieces. Other Tricks Suspected. Both of the prisoners are known to juvenile officers. George Robinson, a juvenile officer, declared last night that the youths had been given "float 1 ers out of town only a few weeks ago. Williams is a clean cut bov, wbc says that this Is his first attempt to be a criminal. He said that he arrived here two days ago from Ogden, al though he is known to have been her. 1 before. He gave his home as Iowa. Mahoney, is an older man, and is b& licved to have been in the court's jurisdiction before. With the arrest o-f Williams and f Mahoney the police believe that they have in custody the men who several ; weeks ago held up and robbed the -Oqulrrh pharmacy at Fourth East and ' Fourth South streets, getting more than $50 from the cash register. t Late last night the officers were en- deavoring to bring L. Robinson, man- . ager of the store, to police headquart- ers in an effort to have 'the men iden- ; tifled. - 1 |