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Show KUDRESSEDHEI AS SHOPLIFTERS SALT LAKE, Nov. 15. Two well dicaaed young men, giving'the names of J. W. Reed and R. Hooper, were pi! rested about 11 o'clock tu's morning ty Detective Fred Sehuliz at the W. L. Nicol clothing store, 210 South 'ain street. The arrest was made at the request of George W. Putnam, tailor, 21 East First South street, who l ad been robbed of two pieces of val-vable val-vable cloth earlier in tho morning. Vr. Putnam and James H. Sanders, manager of the Uransford apartments, Couth Temple street, au.l a former member of tho Salt Lk' City police department, assisted Detective Schulu I in locating and arresting ti:c men. Wheu Hooper was searched at the f iation $600 in currency, a little small J change, ft watch and two large dla- i monas, worth probably $5"', were tak-iu tak-iu from him, nnd his pal aiso had several sev-eral dollars in money, a pold watch fLTid a valuable diamond studded watch fob monogram. A visiting card from the Order of Mwose, Portland lodge, pnd a ticket to Portland were also found on Hooppr. Tbo officers are of tho opinion that tho pair have not beta operating in ..ilt Lake City very long, but further investigation Is being made. The men are not talkative and a sweating this morning In tho detectives' office at the station failed to get pay definite information out of them, though they said enough lo satisfy th . officers that they are experienced thievew. The men went Into the Putnam shop tills morning, after looking in the window win-dow for a minute or two, and while liOoper engaged Mr. Putnam's attention atten-tion in selecting some cloth for a suit of clothes. Reed, who had on a voluminous vol-uminous overcoat, buttoned to the chin, 6tudied the goods in a showcase, r.nd was finally successful, says Putnam, Put-nam, in slipping r couple cf bolls of Hack cloth under his coat. Te thn turned to Hooper and to'.d him that he was going to "the room " Hooper promised to meet him a little later, a iid after further conversation with Mr. Putnam, he, too, left the store. In cidering the clothes, Hooper told Mr. Putnam that he did not have enough money to make a deposit, and this despite de-spite the fact that the big "roll" was found on him at the stailcn. Mr. Sanders had been it the room n.ost of the time, and was presumably reading He was watching Reed, however, how-ever, over his paper, and later, when Mr. Putnam reported the loss of the goods, Mr. Sanders volunteered to Identify tho men who had been in tho More, and who had acted rather su3- ! plciously. Mr. Sanders went out t i look for the suspects, while Mr. Putnam went for Detective Schultz. The men were followed to tho Barton store on Main street, where they had Inquired about the price of goods, but when the officer of-ficer arrived they had gone down the street. The officers believe thai the suspects sus-pects have a cache of stolen goods somewhere in this city and they arc tiylng to locate It. Reed claims to be a mining man and Hooper says that he Is in the hotel business. |