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Show hands of "Cherokee BUI' and chased i them to cover. j The loss of their "weapon" s dls- i heartened the Indian that he forth- I with divided the loot with his black j pal and betook hlnsclf to the nearest thirst parlor. Bell was determined, however, to turn one more nick before seeking i refreshment and looked about him I for some instrument of warfare with I which to make the attack. Nothing b:it the landscape was in sight, but being of a resourceful turn of mind, the negro immediately appropriated ap-propriated a portion of It In the form ! of a handful of weeds Wrapping a , handkerchief about the weeds. Bell rushed over to Twenty-fourth street and, passing down the alley between i Grant and Lincoln avenues, he encountered en-countered Billy Clark, aiso a colored man. Thrusting the improvised weapon Into Billv's face, Bell relieved him of his wealth and departed, hastening somewhat when Billy darted into his I liouse nearby and procuring a revolver J proceeded to empty It In tho direction j of the highwayman ; Tt was learned yesterday that Bell lind served a term In Folsom prison. ; California, and upon beinc: questioned : regarding the fact. Bell, immediately ; presumed that his - pal. "Cherokee j Bill," whom he now refers to as "that ' llanket Indian from the reservation," ; had given up the details, and fervent- j ly promised the police that he would ' tell enough to send Bill over the road for the rest of his existence. , j The humorous situation of these two thugs seeking to Incriminate each i other, and at the same time aiding to j their confessions almost dally in order ' to strengthen the cose "against the ; other" has hardly been equalled in i Ogden police circles. j CHEROKEES TELL ON EACH OTHER i Interesting sidelights on the gentle art of "holding up" ones rellow man are coming to the surface since the incarceration or "Cherokee Bill" Rio and his versatile pal Frank Bell. The evidence is that resourcefulness is often of-ten the highwayman's main stock In trade. "Cherokee Bill" and his black accomplice, ac-complice, who claimed relationship to, the red man until Bill inadvertantly referred to him as a "good-for-nuthln' nigger." were arrested last wePu on the charge of holding up Insurance Agent Lofgreen, Billy Clark and a youth whose name has not vet come to light. By a clever bit of pardonable prevarication pre-varication the police succeeded in getting the two hold-ups furious at each other and one or the other has been 'coughing up" information regarding re-garding the other almost daily since the arrest lr developed jeMerday that, after lidding up Lofgreen, the men next tackled the youth referred to, Their only weapon was an absolutely worth-lets worth-lets revolver, so lusted that it. could r.ot lie loaded or discharged. Unaware Un-aware of Its harmlessness. however, the jouivg man snatched It from the |