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Show ARRESTED FOR SMALL THEFT DEPUTY SHERIFF OF DAVIS COUNTY AFTER PRISONER. .w. i One C. M. Brown Wanted for Alleged Theft of Seven Dollars From His Employer. Deputy Sheriff Roso of Davis county came to Ogden yesterday to get ono C M. Brown, who had been captured by the police forco of the city at the request of the Davis county officers. Brown is charged with stealing from a farmer near Farmlugton. It was said by Officer Rose that a few days ago Brown was given a Job by a Davis county farmer and tbui while the family was away from homo he entered the house and Is alleged to have stolen the $7. ' A fourteen-year-old lad accompanied tho deputy sherin to Ogden and when confronted by Mr. Brown readily recognized blm ns the man wanted for the alleged offense. Brown is a very extraordinary man physically. Ho is 7 feet 3 inches Ull and weighs a little over 200 pounds. He wears worklngmen's clothes ana carries every sign ot, the working man; his clothes. Bhoea and hat are such as the laborer usually wears and his hands show tho callouses .of tho bard worker. Ho expressed considerable surprise that ho 6hould be arrested for tr.o theft of S7 or any other amount lor that matter, but very modestly submitted sub-mitted to the arrest, willingly jITerlns j to return to Davis county with the deputy sheriff. Ho stated to the Mn-partment Mn-partment hero that he Is an ex-policeman of a city in Texas, stating that he carries his former-uniform In run trunk which is now ln the hands ir the railroad company, he not yet nav-ing nav-ing presented his check for the same. ' Mr. Brown was considerably amused over his arrest and the posltlveness of the boy who branded him as "th-J man" wanted. Some of the officers at the Ogdon station thiuk the erstwhile officer ot Texas is the' subject of a mlstakeu identity and that withal It ts a hugn joke on tho big man |