The Greeley tribune., 1911-07-20
ARRA|CN
ACCUSED
YOUTHS
ALL SAVE ONE ENTER PLEA OF
NOT GUILTY
THE LOOT IS BEING IDENTIFIED
With q Few Mire Arrests Officers
Relieve That Mystery o. All
Recent Robberies win Be
Cleared

nrobable that other arrests will be
made soon by the sheri6's once.
Harry jacobson, aged IL, charged
With larceny and burglary, 10 the one
to plead guilty.
Percy Candlin, aged II. pleaded not
| Ruilty to one formal charge OF larceny
and burglary, but admitted being
euilty of another. His preliminary
hearing was set for July u.
Paul Lodwick, aged II, pleaded not
guilty and his preliminary hearing
was set for July 10.
Walter Jensen, aged 16, charged
with burglary and larceny, pleaded not
guilty and his hearing was set for
July 20.
Theodore Lekander, aged 1s. plead
ed not guilty and his hearing was
set for July 19.
David MCGEE, aged II. pleaded not
guilty and his hearing was set for
July 20.
Albian Sward probably win be ar
raigned this afternoon or on Monday.
All Of the arraignments were In the
Justice court of Emil B. Hatch.
The charges against all Of the
youths are practically the same. The
exact number Of burglaries that have
occurred is not known, ~ It has been
found that numbers Of petty thefts
suffered by Greeley citizens have not
been reported. Identification Of the
plunder has been going on steadily
until now there is but little left for
which the owner has not been found.
There are but few developments
during the past twenty-four hours.
The officers made such thorough
clean up that but little is left to be
done. With the arrest Of one or two
other young men it is believed that
the mystery Of all the various thefts
reported will be cleared.
Following is a brief account OF
the case:
The first clew was last Tuesday
night when c. c. Townsend and
Ernest Cradle were returning from
the chautauqua. They saw several
boys acting Queerly and as though
they were trying to conceal some
thing. Investigation showed that
the young men were carrying away
arm loads of bottled bear. They
gave chase. tracing the boys 40
place in the rear Of DELPHI Z. Car
penter's house. Investigation show
ed that other things than beer had
been cached here and the next
morning both men got busy. Tho
first arrest made in the beer case
was Walter Jensen.
From what was at hrst regarded
as boyish prank grew to story Of
systematic burglaries in Greeley
carried ON over q period of montns
in which it is believed nearly
dozen young men are implicated.
The trail was taken up Wednes-
day morning by Deputy Sheriff Pet
erson, Sheriff McAfee and Deputy
Frazier being busy on other cases.
The police made a number of ar
rests and it was decided that the
charges were serious enough to turn
the entire case over to the county.
This was done Wednesday after
noon. Half a dozen arrests were
made that day and with each came
further revelations.
Not until early this afternoon did
the officers give out any informa-
tion as to their work, having wait
ed until they had recovered nearly
all of the plunder stolen and arrest
ed all of the youths against whom
the finger of suspicion pointed.
Charges Against Many
At noon today the following list
OF the young men arrested was
given out:
| Dave McGee.
| Percy Candlin
! George Kidder.
| Theodore Lakander.
Paul Ludwig.
Harry Jacobson.
Albion Sword.
- Wickstrom.
Walter Jensen.
David ]. Lod dwick.
In1s list does not include all who
were investigated by the officers but
is those who have been or probahlv
Will be arraigned on formal Charges.
Citizens Join Searcn
Q. g. Townsend, Ernest CRADLE
and Frank Ewing, whose honses
had been burglarized. were n, uee -
.eriai AID to the officers in appre-
Tenuins Ts tne young men suspected.
Iney worked In the ranks with Dep
nesday and that night. The 80
began unearthing plupder 4, % -,
sorts of places including cbin,.n
coops, chimneys of deserted bnu.s
under churches, barns, ont b' bous
closets, under beds, in shactv -
out Of the way corners that wa,. ~ .r
least suspected. we're tho
Later the sheriff. all of the damn.
ties and the police force Joined a1p% "
that hs general n1end.e clean up with the result
Jail from all parts of Greelev" :" tne
vicinity. Much of the incrimn, ,,,na n1
stun was hidden after 1t wss hatine t
that some arrests had bene man nhoTn
the srena,sd ava1snchs effort ito to get from under
falling the youths devised a,, 70 DO
OF places for hiding things ' sorts
Plunder Recovered
The list of things recove,s,
81. th.oes es.t ~ guns. some of them of Of
siiverwareA eAGsR taken makes ,ra,, and valuable.
nome. 5ewelry and valuable ,rir, liable
rom the Townsend home @ linkets
rom the home Of Messrs, Bosa ru guns
'Decker. Townsend. Ewing se Sse Cd {