Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 4 | Ogden Officers Capture Alleged Robbers Who Broke into Sporting Goods Store; Loot is Recovered

OGDEN OFFICERS CAPTURE ALLEGED ROBBERS WHO BROKE INTO SPORTING i ' GOODS STORE; LOOT IS RECOVERED i Detectives William A. Taylor and Everett Noblo of the Ogden police department, de-partment, captured the alleged robbers of the Armstrong sporting goods store at a Japanese rooming house, 17Gf I West South Temple, Salt Lake, last I night at 11 o'clock. They were assist-! ed in the arrest by Detectives G. B. Hamby of the Salt Lake police and by Lester Wire. I The men, say the police, had in Iheir i.-usscssion nineteen revolvers and automatic au-tomatic pistols, a quantity of ammuni-initiou, ammuni-initiou, two cartons of government am-, 'munition, two bottles of nitroglycerin, four fuses ready for use, a package of! 'detonating caps, and thirteen sticks of 1 dynamite. j I. W. ."W. literature and, cards show-! ing that the bearers wore members of' the "Votorans of the Rail, Inc." said to be an I. AV. W. organization, were found, tho officers allege. - Floyd C- Jackson, special agent for the department of justice, examined the men at the city jail in Salt Lake. He said that they were undoubtedly I. ! W. W 's and were evidently headed for :some point where they intendd startling start-ling a rlgn of terror, Ogden police said, j The men arrested gave their names Jas George Davis and Robert Kelly, i Davis claimed to be 30 years old while ! Kelly said he was 18 years old, j According to Captain Jonathan i Jones of the local police. Detective .Taylor, while in company with Noble on Wednesday night, saw one of the men. "There's either an ex-con or a dope fiend, and he'll boar watching," he is said to have remarked. The men . v.ho'pertpetrated the robbery were (seen at the rear of the Armstrong j store and a description of the supposed sup-posed robbers wa3 obtained. 1 Yesterday, following the report of! the robbery, Tnylor went to the Eldorado Eldo-rado hotel in this city, whore one of j the men had registered as G. L. Davis. J ille later ascertained that two men,! .carrying heavy luggage, had departed from Ogden on the first Bamberger i train yesterday morning. The officers immediately leit for Salt Lake and 'succeeded in locating their alleged j quarry. Kelly said he was a switchtender, I while Davis claimed the railroad as his 'calling. Tho police say jewelry, putty. mentholatum, vaseline, a bottle of gun oil, knives, two pair of now shoes, one marked Armstrong, knives, three loaded revolvers and other articles were found in the grips of the men. which also contained nitroglycerine in frail glass containers. Chief of Detectives Robert Burk departed de-parted fcr Salt Lake to return the prisoners pris-oners to Ogden in case the department of Justice does not take over the case.