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Show QUICKLY JAIL TWOBURGLARS SALT LAKE, Dec. IS By the arrest ar-rest Saturday night of John McGraw, aged 27 years, bellboy, and Gcorro Sang, aged 19 years, electrician, the Salt Lake police' landed behind prison barB two men who, within an. hour, confessed that they were guilty of robbing the room of Dr, W. E Warner at the St. Cecile hotel. 2?,Z South State street Detectives Cleveland and Ripley made the arrest, and within n short time afier the men wero locked up secured the admissions admis-sions of their guilt. Both McGraw and San? had rooms at the St. Cecile, and It is partly due to this fact that their capture was so quickly effected. Dr. Warner, according to his own statement, was dozing In an easy chair In his room shortly before 10 o'clock. The door of his room was closed, but not locked. He awoke suddenly, found his watch and satchel gone and saw the jounger of the two men, afterward identified as Sang, standing near him. Dr. Warner say the man darted past him and ran into the hall, disappearing in the darkness. dark-ness. Officers Are Notified. Dr. Warner then notified the clerk of his loss, and while the latter was getting telephone connection with tli-? police station he heaid McGraw trying try-ing to get a friend on the wire from his room in the hotel. Detective Cleveland reached the hotel before McGraw or Sang left and placed them both under arrest, the physician Identifying Iden-tifying Sang as the man he sav in his room Going down the stnfrs Sang broke and ran, while the officer held on to McGraw aud took him to the station. When first arrested McGraw Mc-Graw denied all knowledge of the crime, but when he found that Sang, whom Officers Cleveland and Ripley caught half an hour later. In tho Ocean bar, within half a block of the hotel, and with the stolen watch In his possession, was under arrest, he confessed The satchel of the physician physi-cian had been dropped In the hall McGraw "ays that he Flipped the watch to Sang because he was alarm ed, and Sang says that he was in the physician's room to return his stolen property when the doctor awoke. 1 |