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Show ARREST OF FIVE MEN ALLEOED TO BE P(IT ON LARGE GANG OF BOXCAR ROBBERS IN OGBEN 1 Jive men, alleged Io havi been lm-i plicateti In whole ale boxcar robberli were token into custody since 9 o'clock this mornins bv niembi i of tlv p,,l, and sheriff's departments The men aro said to be switchmen employed in the local yards, the looting eif box-cars box-cars taking piace in the yards It i supposed that the robbery of a car in tho yards was free from any element of danger as the alleged burglars are supposed lo have worked in close , oper.it Ion. At 0 o'clock this morning, loot that had been taken from the dwelling pla of one of the men was recovered antl taken to the sheriff's office. This consisted con-sisted mainly of inner tubes of automobile auto-mobile tires made by the V . S Rubber company, a quantity of canned good-. B pair of expensive shoes and a number num-ber of work shirts Between a hundre I and a hundred and lifty boxes of inner tubes were stored at (he sheriff s offli e Rumors on the Blreet today were to 1 the effect that two cases of shoes, consigned con-signed to W. H. Wright & Sons, were among other articles which were stol-len stol-len The Officers and nun from the sheriffs department had not located the main cache The arrests were the culmination of Investigations and inquiry covering a period of over two months An off i -'cer saw strange behavior on the part of several men some time ago and since that time there has been a care-lul care-lul cheeking up While no authentic word has be n (received from the sheriffs department. It is intimated that four of the five men who have been arrestee! have ad ml t ted their part in the crimes. The arrest of several others is expected. It Is surmised lhat the government will take action. Evidence on the men, is the allegation, Is sufficient for conviction. con-viction. While no authentic word concerning the arrest of the men was available, rumors around town regarding the affair af-fair were current and practically all the details, with the exception of th total amount of good- stolen and th names of the parties implicated, were obtained. |