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Show CUT OFF THE, COPPER ' WIRE A crime, in which vandalism and thievery were mixed to the great loss i of the Bamberger railroad company and a small gain to the culprit, has been laid bare by the confession of Jen Brothers, who is now being held at thp city prison under a charge of petit larceny. ' For several weeks the Salt Lake & Ogden Electric road has been greatly annoyed by the cutting off of the cop per bands on the steel rail, which carry car-ry the return current of electricity. The loss of the copper was exceeded by the trouble of repair. The police , were notified and after considerable work on the case, Brothers, a character charac-ter already known to the police for his misdemeanors, was arrested, Tuesday Tues-day nfternoon Brothers confessed that he had chopped off the copper wire with an ax and had scld it to Jacob-son, Jacob-son, the Wall avenue junk dealer, With the money obtained, he had purchased pur-chased morphine, to which drug the fellow Is addicted. ' The junk man, who it. Is claimed has purchased about 70 pounds of the stolen wire, will be chared with receiving re-ceiving stolen property and will prob-ablv prob-ablv be more severely dealt with than the thief. j |