The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-23

to the capture occurred between 100
and 8 o'clock yesterday morning. At
the former hour the residence of
Thomas F. Tolhurst at 745 West North
Temple, was entered by a burglar.
Immediately thereafter the house of
/ E. E. Bartlett, at 652 West South Tenn
pie, was also entered and by the latter
hour the burglar was in the hands of
the law.
At the hour first mentioned Mrs. Toll
hurst was awakened by the sound of
door slamming. She called to her son
and he. Weakening, saw the retreating
form of an intruder and sprang out of
bed and seized his revolver. He gave
chase to the burglar who, however,
made good his escape. Mr.. Tolhurst
then proceeded Immediately to the po-
lice station and reported. In a few
minutes Officers Roberts and Hilton
were on their way to the scene. officer
Roberts and Mr. Tolhurst proceeded
out South Temple to Third West and
then took the Union Pacific tracks to
North Temple, While officer Hilton took
another route.
AS the former reached North Temple,
a switch engine stood across the street
and in making a detour around it Of
ficer Roberts spied a man walking west
and acting strangely. AS soon as he
saw the officer ne started to run back
toward the train and jumped through
between the cars. The officer followed
and as he landed on the opposite side
he drew down his gun and ordered the
fellow to stop.
What are you doing here?" inquired
the officer. The man replied that he
was there to catch the Rio Grande
Western train to Leadville. The officer
knew at once the man was lying and
told him he guessed he would take
him to the hall and inquire into his
case. The three started for the station,
the officers walking beside the prisoner
and Mr.. Tolhurst following They had
gone only about half q block when the
prisoner dropped something and Mr..
Tolhurst STOPPING down to pick it up,
found a 38-calibre Smith & Wesson re-
volver.
AT that the officer stopped to search
his prisoner and found a number of SO
cartridges and 1910 in his pocket. The
fellow denied having thrown the gun
away but when the officer asked him
why he had not thrown away the cart
ridges also, he saw he was caught and
replied because 1 didn't get a chance
The amount of money he had CORES
ponded with that secured from Mr.
Tolhurst and they felt sure they had
! the burglar and booked him on that
charge.
Yesterday morning Officer Roberts
and Sergeant Burbidge took the mans
shoes and went down to the Tolhurst
! home. They found that they fitted ex-
actly into the imprints made in the soft
ground by the burglar whom they
tracked from the Tolhursts directly to
the house where the second burglary
occurred and in the operation learned
the details of a job which had it been
accompanied by a little more success
would have enriched the evil doer to
the extent of several hundred dollars
and made two families that much
poorer. The circumstances were these:
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residence by a kitchen window and
after exploring the lower hoor pro-
oeeded up stairs. There were evidences
pointing to this fact. He had left the
window open and had opened the back
door 20 clear the way for hasty es-
cape and thai. fact was his undoing.
The open door and window created a
draught and when he entered the room
of the son the door blew shut The
noise awakened Mrs Tolhurst, as
stated, and when she called to her
son the burglar took fright and started
to ESCAPE.
He had evidently but just entered
the room and was in the act Of going
through the sons trousers, and when
he started to run ne took them with
him. He could not have been in the
room long, as Mr.. Tolhurst's gun laid