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Show SHERIFF HENRY CATCHES THREE HKCOVKIIH AUTOMOIULK HTOLKV ATHXLTLAKi: CITY. Ciipt. Knill V. Johnson Driving lUck With Prisoners Who Mut Anivvrr the Charge of (Jrnnd Ijvr-ciii) Ijvr-ciii) -One. of tlu KiUovvn Want-M Want-M nr AiHrtlier Marlilnx Tlieft. Three young men, ech of whom Is about 20 years of ago, wcro arrested ar-rested on North Ninth street Wednesday Wed-nesday evening about 5 o'clock by Bhorlff Henry as they enmo bowling Into town at a speedy gait In a mn-chlno mn-chlno stolon from the city and county coun-ty building grounds at Bait Lake C ty last Tuesday afternoon from Clark L. Whitney, city license assessor as-sessor Sheriff Henry had road a description of the stolen automobile In Wednesday morning's newspapers. news-papers. Yesterday Copt. Kmll V. Johnson of the Zlon police department depart-ment caino to Price to take the young men back with him. Thoy W,!!J charged with grand larceny. They gavo their names as Joseph Peterson, William Perry and Kred Kelley. Tho Carbon county sheriff reported to the Bait Lako City police po-lice that on arriving at Price with the machine, Peterson declared ho and bis associates were on their way to Kansas to fill n harvesting contract. After reading the morning morn-ing newspapers, howover, the sher-Ifi sher-Ifi found that the machine bore tho license number of tbo automobile stolen from Whitney. I Captain Johnson, who Is taking the three men accused of tho theft back to Bait Lake City, together with tho automobile, sajs ho has evldenco that Peterson stole the automobile au-tomobile of K. M. Ilagley. claim agent of tho Utah Light and Traction Trac-tion compan), from in front of the Kiarns building Monday evening. The machine was recovord lato Mouda) night. Police officials say that In this Instance efforts will bo mado to probocuto Potorson, Perry and Kol-It) Kol-It) under the new law which oipo-clally oipo-clally outlines tho theft of an auto-mobllo auto-mobllo ns grand larceny, under a separate section When the thieo men arrest d passed through Cotton, It Is charged, charg-ed, thoy took a valise belonging to a passenger bound for the reservation reserva-tion This wnB recovered when thoy wero arrested. After leaving Bait Lnke City tho mon had mutllutod tbo number of the machlno In the hope of avoiding avoid-ing identification |