The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-03
A SPRING GUN FOR BURGLARS
A Park Street Tailor Will Resume
Using One to Protect His M.
Premises. .a-

A spring gun will receive the next
burglar who attepts to rob the tailor
shop of H. F. Allan a. SO West Park
street. at whose rear door Would-be
burglar in the person of Harry r.Corspn
was captured this morning at l o'clock
while trying to break into the place.
For a period of nine months once the
| tailor shop was guarded by spring
| gun, which pointed at the back door
and was loaded and rugged in readiness
for the burglar who should break into
it by that entrance. The only reason
the gun was not there this morning to
greet Carson with a deadly charge of
lead was because the proprietor of the
store had wearied of the task Of setting
it, and had given up hope of ever bag
ging a craftsman in that fashion. But
the attempt of Carson to loot the en-
| porium of clothing this morning has
| revived thoughts of the spring gun IN
! the mind of the proprietor. While dis
! eussing the attempted burglary at his
! store today, he said
TN have to fix up the spring gun
| again.
And his wife replied: Yes, that's
| good idea" ocr4
So the next burglar who comes to the
back door of the tailor shop with evil
| =
| good chance of being pot spotted with
| rifle ball.
Carson, the man who attempted ene
burglary at / o'clock this morning, was
| observed by Special Waterman Robson
| entering a narrow way that runs be-
| tween the building in which the tailor
shop is housed and the next store to
it west from Park street back to the
| rear of the premises. Robson snifed q
burglary, and called Officer Henderson
from his beat up the street. The TIVE
| guardians Of the law stole on tip toe
through the narrow way on the trail OF
the burglar, and when they emerged
upon the rear porch of the tailor shop
they beheld him crouched at the rear
door, working away in an effort to pry
it open. He was taken completely by
surprise and the cleaning barrel OF
Officer Henderson's pistol influenced him
to surrender on the spot.
Carson was working on the door sys-
tematically with a chisel with which
he was chipping the wood away around
the lock- The door bore some deep cuts
today, and although it was strongly
barred and braced inside as we'll al
locked, II he had been permitted to cut
away for an hour longer doubtless N
would have been wearing striped trous
ers today of his own choosing. insteat
of being in a fair way to be clothed
, for some time in an entire suit of stripes
, selected by the state.
He had already got so far along will
his work as to be able to insert
board between the door and the door
:. lamb. search of his pockets after hi
arrest brought a candle to light. show
ing that he was prepared for the wOrl
before him and did not intend to pic
out his wearing appa~-f in tile dark
woe arrested he rene~'-
he could not be punished for burglary
s but only for an attempt. chis was eyi
:. dence of reflection on his part; possibl
past experience in the line of enterpris
he was engaged in and some legs
knowledge. His statement would hav
been less compromising. however. II n
had said that he was at the tailor
door praying for an extension of cred
or trying to get peek at the tailor
goose.
Of1cer Henderson's zeal seems to i
in the quarter where burglaries are I
style. He is one of the officers VIII
got the youthful burglars at Roser
STEMS fruit store. Waterman Robso
is employed by the business men of Yves
Park street to protect their propert!
He was put on some time ago. In rel
erence to the tailor shop particular!
he has filled the place Of the spring gul
which will perhaps now reinforce hill
again.
There is reason for watchmen an
spring guns to protect the tailor shol
1T was burglarized about a year ag