The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-19
RECOVER BOOTY IN
SECOND HAND STORE
Officers Find Stolen Property
Valued at $4,000 in Ed
redge establishment.
VARIETY OF ARTICLES
Lot Includes Rich FnrS Which
Have Been Offered at
Ridiculously Low Prices.
VARIETY OF ARTICLES

Tic booty obtained as The rcsul, OF as
many as twenty burCiaries. Comprising
costly rurs snverwarc. cutlery wearing
appeared and real hair switches, In all
valued al s30No. Was discovered and at
tached yesterday afternoon in fence.
or receiving place for stolen goods. AT
los West Second South street. by Sher-
iff Joseph c. Sharp. Sheriff Frank Harris
az Davis county and q corps OF deputy
sherisfs.
!. :. ElGredse aged IS years. pro-
ptjetoy o. . second hand store nj l6S
West Second South street. and his IA
thor Thomas 3ldredsc. AGED 30 years
were plno,d under arrest ON thc charge
OF receiving stolen goods.
"For thrrc ycars.' said Sheriff SHARP
asst night. y have suspected ,he eN-
.stcnce a. thls ':crcc. but K was not un-
iil today that evidence came into my
hands which justified arrests and the
searching of the premises,
''Thp' tAis fence has been discovered
is largely duo to the work Of Sheriff
Harris He located man lu Davis
county Yesterday who confessed 10 har-
ing disposed al stoien goods al the
F.ldredec establishment. THIS man was
brough, here and he pointed out ihc soc
ond hand store whore lle said he had
sold certain stolen articles This re
suited IN the search and arrest Of the
,;radrcdzc * spccIrcaHy charged w!rn
receiving sto.cu property which was
taken from the STORE 4 Eargn & Co.
NJ Garfield, which w0s .,hhel on oc-
tnhcr %. Il Is alleged iGe stolen goods
were sold Ia Eldrejgc the fol- wing da".
There Is no doubt ,hat many otner
charges Ci n Similar nature VII he
brought against the younger Eldrcdse
Stolen Property Identified.
Among the articles which were taken
TO the shcrifrs office last night from
the second hand store are those which
have heen identified as having been
stolen from the following stores:
hampton General Merchandise store al
Rountifui which was robbed on Octo'
Der %.
The Merrill Lumber & Hardware COM
rany's store at Brigham CRY.
Baron & Co.'S store ~ Garfield.
The Stewart a Burton store AT Kays-
vile. which was robbed last June.
u is believed that a quantity OF the
stolen property taken from Denver
4 Rio Grande freight cars. No fur rob
bery has taken place recently in Salt
Lake and IL Is believed by Sheriff Sharp
that the costly furs have been shipped
into Salt Lake probably fror, San Fran
cisco or Los Angeles. whore a number
~ fur robberies have occurred within
the last six months.
~ 3 o'rlock yesterday afternoon Sheriff
Sharp. Sheriff Harris and DEPUTY Sh-r-
ITS Corless. Eddineton. Steele. Seager.
Hedges. Sch"ttler and Butler went 20 The
fidredCc second -hand store.
Tho two Eldredecs were placed un
der arrest and taken To The shcriffs Of
fec TO await developments When "A
-carrh OF the store was begun by the
TO ho fruiticSS.
Plumber Hidden in Store
The first find was satchcl containing
fourteen hair switches. which were idcn-
tilted a= those stolen last August from
the Morris hair store in tho Eagl" block,
corner OF Second South and West Tenn
pie streets.
Following this large quantities. of stolen
goods were found hidden all over the
sror". under piles Of rags. ON dust laden
shelves and ~ trunks and sui,cascs.
Upon n sable fur. valued AT $50. was
4 note. pinned There by the SECOND hand
man. t"llirE that tho fur was 10 be sold
for s. and that 81 had already been paid
as Ia" FIRST installmcnt Other costly
furs were marked 10 bc sold IT / pcr
cent of their value.
Following is an inventory or tho stolen
property; Two blue silk pctticoatS tve
hroadclcth skirts. black; ci;;ht fur muffs
sable. sealskin and others nNs FUR col
lars, ono open mink mpff two complete
sets ~ furS. sixty Yards of hrnad"ioth
ono oycrcoat. one raincoat. seven mems
suits, SIX pairs of trousers. 2au dozen
nccltics. 600 pocko tkniyos ranging III
value from $3.50 10 81 fifteen pairs az
shoes. one set Of White sewing machine
nItuTCS, iOuT carving stiS nNc watches.
twelve rnZors. twelve purses, fourteen
hair switches. 300 pairs Of gloves. onr
case OF silycrware and many odd pieces
Of silverwurc. nine Gets of Gillette safety
razor blades. three dozen handko r"nicls
and one dozen ladies silk mrfflcrs.
Long in Business Here.
j. J. Eldredgc has been the proprietor
of second hand stores in salt Lake for
the past nine years and at present s. also
tho proprietor of a roomtue house ;,t "a
West First south street. lie csta hiis ed
himself In business here nine wears aEo
on South West Temple street.
Sheriff Sharp believes that the elder
EldrcdGs has been in charge Of tho store
Will" his son vas abroad seeking uniaw-
fui business.
Deputies rom tho shcrifCs office yes
tcrday visited man. whose name the
refused 30 divulGs. who lives on Eleventh
south street. between Main and State
streets. and whom, IL Is alleged. fur-
nished horses and wagons TO tho F.l-
1rcdEcs that the stolen property might h-
taken ~ their store. II is believed that
f.ldrcdgc was Instrumental III hirlnE
these vehicles out 10 robbers MOO has,
cached stolen goods OUTSIDE OF tho CITY.