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Show CLEVER CAPTURE OF 10 CROOKS The prompt action of Officer Vance Into yesterday afternoon resulted In the capture of two criminals for wliom the Ogden police have been searching search-ing for the past two weeks Tho men under arrest aro .John Hewitt and Arch Curllss. wanted for robbing tho Banquet restaurant at HO Twenty-firth Twenty-firth street of ?.T :,u in cash. The arrest of the two men is partialis par-tialis duo to the detective ability shown by the Chinese proprietor of the eating house. Hewitt and Curliss emploved a sneak th'ef plnn In robbing the restaurant res-taurant two weeks ato and their of- fort to repeat the trick yesterday resulted re-sulted in t heir apprehension. At. their rust appearance nt the ren taurant they askei tho Chinese waiter to get theni a run of rorfec after they had received their checks. While the waiter was getting the coffee one of (he men reached over the counter, pulled out tho money drawer and extracted ex-tracted between $:, ami "0 In change. The proprietor did not discover dis-cover his loss until after the men had left the place. Yesterday the (wo men arrain ate in tho rest a u runt, but when they asked the Chinese waiter to r;et a second cup of coffee he liocnnio suspicious and after leaving the rroni concealed himself behind :i partition and watched watch-ed his suest-' His suspicions proved correct find be cruight one of the men in the act of leaiiln;. over the. counter to rob the cash drawer. Upon be'ng discovered the crooks ran from the restaurant, but Officer Vance was near tho place at the time and upon learning the cause of their hasty exit ho r;avo chase and captured captur-ed both after a eng run through several sev-eral alloys and side streets. The police relieve that both men hae a lon-4 criminal record and have been opening In Silt Lake City, Os-rlen Os-rlen and this entire section of the country for sometime past. |
