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Show ATTEMPT TO ROB CHAUFFEUR LIDS Pi IN IL CELL Former Boise Penitentiary Inmate In-mate Arrested at Depot Ho- ' tel in Ogden i PARTNER SURRENDERS WITH COLD FEET Confession Made of Series of . Grimes Committed Here and In Salt Lake Fo'Iowing a series of Incidents that ! put a Bill Hart scenario to shame, two r confessed taxlcab bandits are in ugrien They arq George Smith, who is said , to have broken his parole from tho iBo'se penitentiary, and W. R. Martin, iwlic rvc himself up, declaring he had ;"cld fuet." Tle pece officers who figure in the case arc Deputy Sheriffs R. II. Woot-ton, Woot-ton, V. II. Blackburn and Bert Crltes and Cit Detectives Robert Burk, Tom Burk am! Rverett Noble. Aboul "10:45 p. m. a call .came , into tli..- shcriy5 office from George lian-tf8MmiIL- rmtSwtiacabJxmu1 stand onisjdQ the Marion hotelt saving. thc h had been hired to drive two aiin to Rlverdnle. Arriving in the vicinity to which he had been directed to go TlRiisenasked iho men for further directions when Sroiih drew a gun and told him to drive on. Hansen, looking at the gun, decided tha driving anywhere was better than lying-stiff in the road so he said. -'All riguL That suits me." But he kept his bra.'n working all right, too. And when it suited him he killed his engine, en-gine, locked his car and leaped into the. road near a house and yelled for help. Loses His Nerve. 1' vjde.iitly the gun puller had lost whatever nerve he had for the job for he diJ not attempt to shoot the taxi-cab taxi-cab driver. The two men ran. ' On receipt of Hansen's news Captain 1 Burk, Deputy Sheriff Blackburn. Dc-' teethe Noble and Bert Crites wont out and scoured the country as far as Sunset Sun-set without getting any traco of the! men. Meanwhile, about 11:30. V. B. Martin Mar-tin walked into the Bherlfl r, office and gave himself up, saying that he was sick of being hot-footed over the country coun-try side, that he knew tho officers would get him, and he thought the best wav out of his troubles was to surrender surren-der himself. Tells His Story. 'n conversation at the sheriff's office of-fice he told tho story of bavins met his partner, George Smith, In Salt Lake s.bout five days ago; that Smith, is i Boise penitentiary prisoner who wa" out on parole and broke it about a voek ago; that they started this taxlcab hold-up game in Salt L.ike abcut fivo days ago, forcing a taxi-cab taxi-cab driver to take them out of towu but gi tling as far as Sandy and tklnk-n tklnk-n there was a sheriff's road house near they got out of the car anuwent back to Salt Lake on the interurban. Tnelr next schemo was to force another an-other uriver at the point of a gun to take them to Brigham. At Brigham thev forced another driver to take them to Ogden the night before hst, I and la6t night tboy were seeking pas- aire? new again when they camt to i their dead end. Smith Is Arrested. i From Martin It was learned that I Smith had roomed at the Depot hotel! andsretective Burk, Deputy Sheriff! jWootton and Detective Noble watched' the hotel until 4 o'clock this morning when they arrested Smith. j Smith corroborated the story of Mar- tin in every detail and told the offM cers that he got too cold at the heart to shoot the driver, and that he nad, thrown the gun Into the Weber river. On acqount of the depth of the waters! It was impossible to find tho gun. ' Martin is In the county jail, andi George W. Smith is in the city jail. |