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Show ARREST 10 THOUGHT TO HIKE COMMITTED ROBBERY Deputy Sheriffs Dick Wootton and T. H. Blackburn left Ogden this morn-! morn-! ing in one of the sheriff department s automobiles for St. George. L'tah. where they will take into custody two men and a woman who robbed Jim Hampton, the Salt Like taxlcab driver, last Thursday night near the Country club. After robbing the man of $130 in currency they bound and gagged him and then stole his taxi The robbery was reported to police and sheriff departments and a search 1 for the stolen car and the trio was be gun, the Weber an.! Salt Lake county sheriffs co operating in the case. Descriptions De-scriptions were sen to southern Utah and this resulted .n hh arrest of Mr and Mrs Jack Davidson pnd Fred Davidson Dav-idson at St. George. The order that the three persons be held was given by Sheriff Jack Corless of Salt Lake ihen advised by the Washington coun t sheriff, and In inrn Sheriff H. C. Peterson at Ogden was notified. It was added that the men claimed they were brothers and that the woman wo-man was the wife of Jack and that ihev were from Denver nd were making mak-ing an auto tour of the state as their honeymoon trip. The report from St. George yesterday yester-day was that the number of the en cine of the car. a Monroe, had been battered off. The license number was given as 10,277, wbjeh belongs to a Ford car owned b R. L Halterman of Parowan. It h biiecd that the number was stolen in the flight south- ward in effort to disguise the stolen car. Hampton's story is to the effect 1 that he wac held up. bound and robbed,! afterward being left on the ground with his overcoat thrown over him at j a point near the Ogden County club. I The robbery, he said, was committed by two men, whom, with a woman, he had driven to this place-, the men explaining ex-plaining tbej wanted to stop in a Be I'luded place to drink some liquor they had in a suit case. Hampton said that between 1 1 o'clock at night and 6 o'clock the np.M morning he succeeded in working hie feet loose H craw led a mile on i hands and knees. -nd then walked to a farm house where a man cut his I hands free Going back after his hat and coat, according to his storv, he found a tramp who 3aid he was in the l vicinity the night before and saw 1 something of what was going on. The negro chauffeur says that $130 in money was taken from him by the 1 holdups who had revolvers with which they forced him to put up his hands before binding him According to his story, they promised to leave tho car at a certain point In Ogden but he failed to find it there. |