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Show GOODS VALUED I Store at Sunset on State High-way High-way Is Victim of Bold Gang WOMEN MAY HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF GANG tracks in Snow Show Some Stood Guard While Others Did Stealing J Smashing their way through the H plate glass in the front door, burglars H entered Smith Brothers' store at Sun-tet Sun-tet early this morning and looted the place of merchandise estimated by H Herbert K. Smith of the firm, to be wnrtb Included in the loot were men's H shirts, dry goods in general, Bhoes. H hosiery, tobacco, candy, silverware and H other articles sold In a general country H LOADED INTO AUTO. ThS goods were 'oaded into an au- Lomoblle. Tracks left by the machine H In the snow indicated that the burg- H larS made off toward Ogden, Mr. H Smith declared. H Sheriff Joseph ; Burnett of Davis H county Was notified when the burg- H Wry was discovered this morning and H he lmuifdiatclv tarted an lnvcstlga- H SEX 1 ROBBERY. I ThU' morning's robbery was the H second a', tin- same store In the past H i six months and the fifth since the H I store was established six years ago, H Mr. Smith said ITrom indications there were fivo H Implicated in the. robbery, according H Mr. Smith 1 Tracks in the snow indicated that H I lookouts were stationed north of the store near tlir. blneksmtth tthoD. At the 1 southwest corner of the store and In the rear of the store. . Apparently there were two engaged in transferring the stolen goods from tin: store to the automobile. H l.l HANDS VI . VME. "They wen- old hands." Smith said. "And they knew what they were tak-lng. tak-lng. The; sampled the candy while 'they worked, and from the. appearance H I of boxes ripped open it was plain! . I evident that they took only what they H v . re losing for, and when a box re-Iyealed re-Iyealed something they did not wan . Li was cast aside, vhe lids pulled off, but the contents untouched. W hat they did take was removed jfrom the boxes. Empty cartons lit-terea lit-terea tho floor of the store this morn- M Y BE A WOMAN. Small foot-print in the snow led Mr. Smith to belh-Ve that cither wo-men wo-men or small boys were members of tho party. Mr. Smith said he came into Ogden this morning to got u good watch dOK to keep in the store overnight to guard against further losses i IKE GRILL ROBBERY, Mr. Smith expressed the belief that the persons who rubbed his store were deliberate thieves and not persons committing a robbery to procure food and clothing to stave off hunger and Robbery of Smi'h Brothers' store at Sunset compares similarly In moth-od moth-od of operation with the Wholesajs theft of meals from the Grill market ! hero some weeks ago. Jn the Ogden lease an automobile was backed up lo I a rear door of the meat market and I several hundred pounds of meat wens I mM carted off, according to statements of I the proprietors. I |