The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-19

| Sheriff Woody and his deputies
Charles Summerfield and Pat Malone
made rich haul last night when they
recovered two wagon loads of stolen
goods taken from homes and farms
| in Latah county and other parts OF
the Palouse country and landed two
men, believed to be professional
and expert burglars, in the county
Jail at Colfax to await extradition to
Idaho for trial. The splendid work
done reflects credit on Sheriff Woody
and his two dependable deputies and
establishes a record for quick work.
Tuesday night lot of grain bags
were stolen from Sig Coleman The
next night sacks were stolen from
Andy Gamble and a set of harness
taken from the harness room in the
big barn of Frank Gustafsen, south
of town. At $50 Thursday evening
Mr.. Gustafsen, who missed the har-
ness in the afternoon, called the sher-
iff's office by telephone and told of
the loss At 8:20 last night the
stolen harness, with two wagonloads
of stolen plunder, were recovered at
Pullman and the two men who had
the goods were under arrest. "That
is the quickest and best work | have
ever heard Of" said Mr. Gustafsen to
the writer He was so well pleased
with the work done by the sheriff
that he drove to Moscow to tell the
newspaper about it
The men under arrest gave their
names as Robert Spoiler and Lloyd
w. Woodress. A young woman, about
18 years old was with them and
claims to be Woodress' wife. The
party have been travelling in an old
five passenger REQ car and had a
wagon with cover, and three horses
They had several tents, some of them
almost new and perfectly good.
Sheriff Woody telephoned to all
neighboring towns when the theft of
the sacks was reported and asked Of
ficers to be on the look out for parties
trying to sell sacks City Marshal
Boyd, of Pullman, learned that
parties had sold sacks to Mr.. Nc
Donald, who runs feed store at
Pullman and had tried to sell lot
Of sacks to N. E. j. Gentry, mayor
and grain dealer of Pullman He
notified Sheriff Woody, who, with
deputies Malone and Summerfield,
went to Pullman. They found the |
men who had sold the sacks and |
searched their camp and found the
harness stolen from Gustafsen. The
thieves had placed part of the har-
ness in a grain bag on which was
written Gustafsen's name in big let
,ers. Mr.. Gustafsen said: "I had |
some peas cleaned at Washburn & |
Wilson's and they wrote my name in
zig letters on some of the sacks. The
hieves took one of these to carry off
,art of the harness." Mr.. Gustafsen
vent to Pullman last night and identi-
led the harness.
The men are believed to be hardened
They refused to return to
daho without extradition and Sheriff
Mcclure, of Whitman county, was
lotified and went to Pullman and took
hem to Colfax where they will be
leld on a charge of taking stolen
into the state, until an ex-
tradition can be secured to bring them
O Idaho
In searching the camp Deputy
Sheriff Summerfield found suit
ase which he opened. 1t contained
icture of Woodress. Mrs. Woodress
eized the picture and tore it into
ieces, and it took the combined eff
orts of Sheriff Mcclure and Deputy
ummerfield to take the pieces of the
from her. They have
cen peiced together and good
of Woodress is thus pre-
erved.
Today the sheriff's office looks like
second hand store. There is almost
wagonload of plunder including
addle, set of harness, great piles |
f bedding consisting of blankets,
ew and old, comforts, quilts, pillows,
tc.; several pairs of shoes, a fine
air of high top boots that sell for I
18, grain bags, all kinds of tools, I
lumbers torches, coal oil cans, can /
ed fruit, etc. Sheriff Woody has !
one to Pullman after another wagon :
'ad of the stuff.
Fred earle identified side curtains
nd the cover of his automobile that
ad been stolen The cover had been {
pped off the bows. Andy Gamble 7
lentified a lot of grain sacks stolen c