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Show BOYS must; SERVE 120 DAYS- "You boys are a long way from homo and you have been associating with bad men." said Judge Murphy to Rbolnbold Malken and William Beck this morning. "According to your own statements you have coDsortcd with thieves, you knowrtig' that they were thieves, by don't you try to be better bv3 than you are? You. nhould have told the ofllcvr6 that those men were stealing bullion from the railroad company, and, bad you been honest, that Is what you would have done. I will sentence you to ISO days In the county jail, aud I h'-p- that when you have server; your tlnnj a valuable lesson will have been taught von, and that vou will profit by It." The trial of the two boys on the charge of petit larceny was concluded lp the municipal court this morning, the court finding them guilty and Pen-fencing Pen-fencing them to 120 days In the county coun-ty Jail. The defendants already bl' been confined in the county Jail TO days, which means that, when they have filled the measure of the penalty exacted by law, they shall have spent six months in Jail. The boys were charged with stealing steal-ing live bars of silver-lead bullion from the railroad company In the Ogden Og-den yards, but the testimony given regurdlng the lead bars fixed the valuation valu-ation at only about $40, the valuation of the things stolen necessarily saving sav-ing to be $50 or more to constitute the crime of grand larceny. The bullion bul-lion wag thrown from the railroad cars and burled In the sand. Testifying In their own behalf, the defendants stated that, on Juno IS, they rode Into Ogden on the rods of a freight car, and as the train entered the yards of this city, three men threw ten bars of lead bu.lllon out of the cars and covered them In tbo sand. The boys said they were curious curi-ous to see what It was and were looking look-ing at the bullion when the night-watchman night-watchman arrested them ari the three thieves. They were held at the cabin of the nlghtwatcuman for the arrival of the patrol wagon, and, while they were waiting, the three thieves made their getaway, leaving them to "face the muste." They said they met the men when they boarded the train at Salt Lake, and that on of them proposed rolling one of the boys for his money. This frightened Beck and Malken. and they crawled under the car and rode tho distance to Ogden In that way. Instead In-stead of coming up town wheu they arrived at Ogden, they bad waited for the. three men to finish their Job of stealing, that they m;ght accompany (hem to the city and be advised as to where they could procure, cheap lodging. lodg-ing. They stated that ;;iey were entirely en-tirely Innocent of the thoft and that triey had never been :n jail. The court did not 'believe, their story. The boys were making their way across the continent on the rods of freight cars, hav.ng been &zcd with the desire for adventure, their association associ-ation with thieves in Ogden proving their undoing. They aro only ifi years of nge and say this Is their first trip away from home. |