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Show GMG OF THIEVES HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR RAIDS 01 CARS - IT. II. Cordon, special agent for the Southern Pacific, and J. L. Hobson, city detective, are holding an inquisition inquisi-tion at the police station this afternoon, after-noon, seeking to establish the identity of an organization that is stealing thousands of dollars worth of freight annually. The two officers took into custody a squad of five men during the after-noon. after-noon. They are believed to be a part of the "raiding ring" or at least- sufficiently suf-ficiently familiar with its existence loi know some of the leaders. It is under-1 stood that other arrests will bo made j during the afternoon and all will he j subjected to thorough grilling as to their knowledge of the disappearance of freight. It has been suspected for several weeks that a gang, maintaining headquarters head-quarters In Ogden and preying upon the cars and freight houses of various railroads running into this city, were operating. The disappearance of freight was in too large quantities and with too much frequency to be of the "incidental variety" and perpetrated by one individual. The officers have been quietly alert and now, it Is thought, their investigations have developed de-veloped sufficiently to warrant arrests. ar-rests. The names of the suspects will not he made known until the cross-questioning cross-questioning session now in progress has been completed. no |