Arizona republican., 1902-12-10
ATTEMPTED BURGL ARIES
The Gang Is Still Trying to Do Busi
 ness in Phoenix.

| Incidents occurring Monday night | demonstrate that the burglars who
 drifted in with the carnival, or some of | them at least, are still here and strand | e1 They evidently can't get enough ahead to pay transportation expenses. | Two residences were entered Monday night and nothing secured but a cold lunch. The robbers either belong to the same outfit that worked the town week before last or were educated in the same school of criminality for their methods are very similar.
 Jake Shott, who lives at 760 East Adams street, had the closest call for it | is not improbable that he narrowly avoided being clubbed or shot to death. With him and his family live I. C.. Hubbs and sister, both MT. Shott and Mir. Hubbs being employees of J. w. DCrris. MT. Shott and his family live in one front room, occupying two beds. MT. Hubbs sleeps in the adjoining front room, connected with Mir. Shott's room by a door which was closed and in front of which a trunk stands. The burglars entered the house through the kitchen where they stopped long enough to eat a lunch and drink all the milk in the house. Then they worked their way through two other rooms di- rectly in front of the kitchen and be- tween it and MT. Shott's room. All doors were left ajar for hasty exit and the screen door was propped open When the captain of the gang opened Mir. Shott's door the latter heard the handle turn and was awakended. Thinking it might he his wife he spoke to her and received no answer but could distinguish a human form in the doorway. StiIl thinking his wife might be walking in her sleep he spoke again and at the same time the burglar step- ped around by the head of the bed. About this time Mrs. Shott answered from across the room and fearing the intruder might have approached for the purpose of spiking his battery MT. Shott threw up his hands to protect his head piece from whatever might hap pen. But nothing happened except that the visitor very deliberately moved out oi the room. He took Mir Shott's trousers with him or else had passed them to an accomplice when he first entered for they were found in the kitchen shortly after.
 Mir. ShOtt had nothing of value in the trousers so nothing was taken He did have a small amount of money in the house but the providers failed to To- cate it. He also had a gun but it was not under his pillow and the burglar very wisely stood between him and the place where the arms were stacked.
 MT. Hubbs heard MT. Shott calling his wife but naturally supposed the in- cident was none of his business so he failed to get up till after the strenuous moments were over and the alarm was sounded. He had a few dollars in his trousers but the burglars had become discouraged before they got around to his case
 The other attempted robbery occurr- ed in the same block at the residence Of Judge w. H. Stilweu Disobeying all laws of polite society they entered here through the back door also but they only got as far as the screen room. There was nothing there that seemed to please their fancy and they had evidently forgotten their skeleton keys for they failed to get into the ad- joining rooms.