Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21

ted. All the works of art which the de-
t~ectiyes found in the house are my own.
I bought and paid for them with money
earned honestly. l loved such things
and 1 bought them for my wife and gave
them to her.
"All the jewelry which she wears, in
Guiding the diamond earrings and rings,
are hers honestly"
When the reporter found Mrs. Da-
Wis she was moving away from the home
that had once been beautified with plum
DER. The knowledge that her husband
was likely to remain nan years behind
prison bars loosened her tongue. She
said:
Il did not know when my husband
was in undertakings of this
kind. He always old me afterward.
He would brag about how he fooled the
police.
AT the point of the pistol I have been
threatened during the past month that
If revealed my husbands doings hi
would kill me n my children. 1t was
a terrible life to lead. I would lie awake
nights a1d thing of my husband enter
ing another mans acme and perhaps
committing murder.
II can't tell what impelled Fred to be
! a burglar. We were always happy and
l made no extravagant demands.
VIVA has Fred done with his money %
That is more than I can tell. He has
bought a piano for me and has fitted up
our little home. He is not a drinkine
| man.
Il saw that he would be arrested and
l pleaded with him not to commit any
more burglaries. l worked with my
needle. | tried to show him that we did
not need another dollar outside of his
salary to make us happy"
viii you shield your husband now
that he is in trouble?'
svyhof <o r in
anything back. l was afraid of nv life.
n his threats to kill the children fright
ened me SO that am glad he is arrested
at last. He will nave to suffer the con-
sequences of his acts"
Three thousand dollars worth of stolen
property, including pictures. statuettes
and other art objects of value. were
! found in the fiat. Davis was arrested on
his car.
I his system of burglary was bold and
original. He milne himself to we'll
guarded business premises in the prin-
cipal streets. He changed his method of
entry now and again that the police
might assume his burglaries to be the
! work OF many men.
The most modern safety appliances
failed to battle him. He knew more
about burglar alarms han the manu-
facturers. He could make keys as well
as any artisan. He operated coolly in
districts where dozens of special police
men in plain clothes We're lying in wait.
Two innocent men are now serving
sentences for crimes to which he has
confessed.
The police tell these stories in illus
tration of his audacity:
In October he opened the front door of
Richards jewelry store with a skeleton
key n carried out 5000 worth of silver
ware with which to adorn his own din
ing table. He wanted silver candlesticks,
blu could find zone in the stock
A few weeks afterWard he saw that
Jeweler Richards had put in his window
a stock of handsome of silver candelbra.
That very evening he entered the store
again and carried home c~andelabra to
match the stolen silverware.
Davis would often rob two or three
stores in one night. On July 16 he enter
ed a shoe store and took $40 and shoes of
the best quality for his wife and child
rem. Next he went into an optical goods
store and took three cameras.
Since July he has never paid a cent
for Photographic materials. Wheneve,
he needed films or plates he would make
another journey at night to the same
| store.