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Show Boys Caught Stealing Money From Mail Boxes Two Salt Lake boy.s, 12 and 13 years of age were arrested in Lehi Friday on charges of .stealing money from mail boxes, following an investigation in-vestigation made by police officers. The Lehi marshal noticed the two boys Friday afternoon as they came out of the Powers Shoe Store, each boy having bought a new hat. They day night at Geneva, sleeping in a hay stack. According to repoi ts received they stole five doiiars from a Utah Oil Refining company station at Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Thursday, sleeping in a hay stack in that city Thursday night. Friday they came back to American Amer-ican Fork, robbing mail boxes here getting a five dollar check. They opened quite a lot of mail and threw it in a nearby ditch. The boys then went to Lehi and cashed the check at Larsen's- It was here that Marshal Mar-shal Fowler picked them uo. Later who had given him the money. Marshal Fowler called up Depu'y Sheriff Durrant and asked him if anyone lived in American Fork witn these names, in the vicinity namd by the boys. Sheriff Durrant replied re-plied that no one did and went to i Lehi. The officers searched the boys j and found $11.77 in silver, pocket knives, flash lights, and various trin-1 ktts in their pockets. After questioning, the boys final!" . admitted they lived in Salt Lake ( City and that they had left home' Monday. According to reports one i boy left home with his own bicycle' and the other bov stole a. l.wi-in i Salt Lake officers were called to notify the parents of the boys. Salt Lake officers reported no report had been given them of missing boys. They were later taken back to Salt Lake by Salt Lake City officers. -o Later the other boy's bicycle 'was broken and he abr.ndoned it, stealing j nether. They confessed to having I went through mail boxes along the state highway in Murray, near the' Ramshaw Hatchery and finding a! check of $113., a check of $fi.3d W..-111, uown in front of the Drug store and one of the boys threw the sack with his old hat into the street. Marshal Fowler watched the boys and noticed that they were buying refreshments, a lot of "eats" and were spending altogether too much money for small boys and he became be-came suspicious. He asked them if they were brothers broth-ers and what their names were. In reply they told him their names were Brown and Smith and they lived east of American Fork on the highway. high-way. When asked where they got so much money, one boy said that he had been working with his father wnich they cashed, $10 and $5.00 m reen backs. They claimed they lost the check of $113 00. According I to their story they spent Monday night In Sandy, and Tuesday night in Lehi, staying in the cabins by Fritz's Place on the State Highway. Wednesday they spent the day at Pleasant Grove during the Straw-1 berry Day celebration and Wednes-j |
