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Show PETTY LARCENY ' !S CHARGE WW SALT LAKE, Oct. 11. The charge of grand larceny upon which Daniel Keith and rharles Henimltiger, members mem-bers of the Salt I.ak? fire department, vere arrested yesterday, has been reduced re-duced to a charge of petit larceny and lall has been fixed In the sum of ?.'.'') in each ease. The firemen will probably W rc'a?.ed from the city jail this afternoon. The time for the hearing of their cas s baa nut been fixed.' It has developed that Keith and Hemmlngcr took only a portion of the old bell in the rloek tower on the police station and sold , It tn the Junk dealer. Other large pieces of the bell nre now, and have been for a long time. In a w;reroom In the headquarters of the fire station. Some years ago It was customary for the curfew signal to be pounded fmm the old bell with a sb-dge hammer ham-mer operated by a sturdy policeman. The whacks at the old bell cracked It and h'ter It wni broken In chunks. Som of these cliunkK of brass were removed to the fire s'allon by the firemen and were male ocr into bells fop ihe different apparatus at the locel foundry. Four bf-lls have been made out of the original. The death of a brother f'reman could hardly have ca;l a deeper rlotrn over the men at headquarters station than has the arrest of Danny Keith, the chemical driver. Danny was looked look-ed upon as 'on? of the good boys" at the flrehniise and by everyone w ho knew him. I As for Danny himself, be Is heartbroken. heart-broken. Tears streamed down bis fare Ibis nmrnln? when friends called to see him in the c!y Jail. Although be had been In Jail but one nl?ht. Danny Keith looked this morning like a man who had tasted of the deepest dre? of affliction. His face wai white and worn and reninrse tood oir In M everv feaftv .'. visit to Dn,iny this morning would prom 'if. the caller to rny; "I cuess that boy has been punished enough plreadv." Dan- J ny looked it, and he sa'd he felt that wnv. Not onlv are the firemen rrIeving at the arrest of their comrade, hit the boy' peed mother has taken the matter greatly to beprt, and Is said to be tinder the care of nbyslclans because of her son's trouble. Probably Prob-ably no one feels the sting nmre than Danny himself, however, wh says time pud arraln : "I don't care so much about mv-s'f mv-s'f but It is mighty hard on the folks" Charles H emnilntrer. who has been In the service of the fire department only since .Tune, has nothlncr to sny ibout the matter. He h,n riot broken down under the mental strain attendant attend-ant upon h's arrest hut like K'el'h. he shows that h Is deeply prleyed because of bis action. |
