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Show STATION AGENT'S CRIME; BURGLARY AND THEFT Heaver, Sept. 1. A bold, bad burglar burg-lar entered the malt shop of H, HankH In .Mllford, Saturday nk'hl. be-twi-en the hours of 12 and t, and, placing the rlcht tune en the little Iron safe, opened H and extracted $15, He then clambered out of the window In the rear of the shop and escaped. Me started to "tank up" along about da) light In the. Oxford saloon, where he changed some small money for currency, cur-rency, when the marshal entered, tlp-tr.ed tlp-tr.ed up and arrested hlni. Th- burglar burg-lar was so surprised when ho was locked up that bo gav.. out a yell that woke up half the vlllae. On l-lng l-lng searched, some more money whi found on hl person than that stolen at the Hanks saloon. County Attorney Attor-ney Knos was telephoned for hero and went to Mllford and preferred the formal charges against the drunken prisoner, who was of the Salt I-ake Kouto in Mil ford. A. J. Ashton by name, a newcomer. He was locked up In tho county Jail h?rc Tuesday and placed under jf.OO bond''. Ills cas will come up before the dlbtrlct rourt next month. Ashton comes from a good family and wa.s short In his account ac-count at the ticket ofilre a!-ut .S. which amount he gambled and drank away, until fearful oi the . couse-quenc.es couse-quenc.es of being found out by th'jj railroad company, he waa prompted to break in. and steaL |