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NERVY THIEF FLAYED A TRICKSTOLE PIPE AND SOLD IT TO THE OWNERHans Wagner Walked Into Alvord‘1 Back Yard, Helped Himself to Galvanized Pipe.Police grind yesterday was of bnet duration but furnished a conttldcrabl* Amount fit atnupenivnt to the spectat-i-rift Tilt* dnck-*l Included Iwo colored men who in to given limiters tor vagrancy and Hnns Wiggins, who acrora plisheO iIn oerv tdunl of dealing a man s property from 1»S back yard and taking It around to the front door to soil It to himHansi Wiggins was arraigned in po lire court on the charge of petit lar cem having stolon It was charged, a quantity lt;f galvanized pipe front thi 11*ar of AlvordV sfv'ond-ijand sIt»r*i on Grant avenne, and r idling II to the* necom modeling proprietor at hU from doorHans hesitated to plead, bin finally mad* U guilty, adding that he did not know that the pipe belonged to Alvord Officer Chambers Htat* I that flan- had been released from serving ;* lt;..ii nff fm p id It. larceny only lh*tdav before and liajl apparently made a 3 lmrt rut to the r*'.ar of Alvord s store where lie recalled the location of a qunntify of galvanised pipe.Takin- a number of lengths of the pipe around to the front of the store. Hang bargained with the wiley proprietor and even negotiated the sale of an additional supply to be delivered Inter,Believing lhat time and pipe were money and that the balance of the pipe lay unprotected from other pop-tdble discoverers Hans hastened back In the rear after the rest- In the meantime a clerk had suggested to Aivord that he was probably buying bis own pipe The result of an Investigation was the calling of an officer who Interrupted Han at his labors and arrested himThe conrl wn visibly affected by the narrative and, believing lhat a genius like Hans id) oil Id be rewarded In ome small wa\ extended an Invitation to remain a guest of tailor Anderson for the next fori night.
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Ogden Standard Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Sun, Jan 31, 1909
Page 16
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