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Show suspicion had fallen, and Incriminating Incriminat-ing himself. A warrant was Bworn to and Hooo was placed under arrest, and in default of J2.00Q bonds, was lodged In Jail to await a healrng on the charge of forgery. Mr. Jones and his assistant. W. T. Knowcls. have been successful or late-In late-In landing half a dozen box car thieves In Idaho, and aa a result a man by the name of William Albright has been found guilty of burglary In tho first degree, for robbing a box car at 8hoshone, Idaho, of ten cad-i cad-i dies of tobacco; Albright had as his assistant a young man 17 years old, whose home wa lu Colorado. Tho young fellow will bo released, as he was not the real culprit, but Albright Is pood for several years In the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. An amusing case of box car thieving thiev-ing came u light In the arrest by Mr. Jones at Pocatello of J. B. Howoll, and his son Henry Howell, who wore seen emerging from a box car at the depot and "shadowed" to a restaurant where the arrest took place. The father wore five undershirts, the son had six of the same sort of underwear under-wear adorning his person, while a third party by tho nnmo of Williams wore seven similar garments. Thoy all pleaded guilty to being In possession pos-session of stolen goods, and will receive re-ceive their sentences In a day or two. JONES RUNS DOWN . BAND OF THIEVES Special Agent of Short Line Secures Confession From Wily Forger. Special Agent Joe Jones, of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line, has Just returned from a trip to Nevada, where he was successful In running down a forger lormerly In the employ of the company com-pany at Fallon, and Wlnnomucca, Nevada. The. culprits name is A. S. Hooe arid ho was charged with forging forg-ing two claim blanks, one Tor $55.75 at Fallon, and another for $16 at Wln-nemucca. Wln-nemucca. The forgeries were made last summer, and lor a number ot months the company was unable to locate lo-cate the forger. Special Agent Jones took the matter in hand early In February, Feb-ruary, and by the first of March had located the author of the forgeries and had secured a confession from him. Hooe proved to be a pretty smooth customer, and led Mr. Jones a merry chase before acknowledging the crime. He was suspected by the railway otn-clal3 otn-clal3 and had been discharged from his employment as agent at Fallon, although he swore he knew nothing of the claim vouchers which were paid at his stations. Ho was able to surround his guilt with apparent Innocence, and In answer to letters from Mr. Jones, Hooe complained thai he had been unjustly accused by tho company and asked that Mr. Jones be placed on- the case so that he might "get Justice." t. General Superintendent Davis assigned as-signed Mr. Jones to tho case, and alter al-ter tracing Hooe to San Francisco, Mr. Jones by clover manipulation secured se-cured the retuni of .Hooe to Fallon, Nev. He there confronted him with tho results of his investigation, and demanded that he confess. Hooe perceived per-ceived that Jones "had the goods," r.i i co'nplot confession, ex-, oneratlng an asslsUnt upon whom |
