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Show SUSPECTED SPY OF BURGLARS JAILED Despite his gray hairs, beard and ' i,-enorai dignified appearance Joseph Nelson, alias "Dad" Brady, arrested Tuesday evening by Detectives Ed- '. ward Butterfleld and R. II. Cham- J bers, on the charge of vagrancy, was ! sentenced to serve five days in jail by Judge D. R. Roberta following the emphatic denial that he had been In Ogden or in trouble of a similar na-j na-j I ture before His plea failed to make the neoes-sary neoes-sary impression on the courl to sc- ' cure his freedom and before Ing taken to Jail h made one last etffort. : requesting the JiuIkp to sentence him : to pay a fine instead of serving time j In Jali which was refused. Detectives Butterfleld and Chambers Cham-bers told the court that Brady op-r- ates by going to the various houses of a town presumably for the pui i of canvnsAlng but In reality for the purpose of getting into the houses and sizing up their interiors following which they are visited by bur glars and sneak thievea L' According to Chief of Detectives Burk. Brady operated a shady room-; ing house in Salt Lake, an alleged rendezvous for criminals. According tV the police Brady was refused a license to operate a rooming room-ing house In Salt Liko after the authorities au-thorities had investigated his record. |