The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-12-22
CHIEF PRICE MAKES \ ]
IMPORTANT CAPTURE
sAFE BLOWER CAUGHT WiTA
KIT or TOOLS - RELEASED
FROM MISSOURI fENiTENTt
Any TWENTY DAYS AGO.

Charles Tomson, afe-ulower and !
ex-conyict, was captured BY Chief OF
Police Price Tuesday and given
trial before Police Magistrate Robn'
son Yesterday morning.
Tomson arrived in Cairo Monday
night frosh from the Mis5oaTi pen
itentiary at jefferson City from whlch
he was released on the End day Of
December just tweniy days ago
He carried with him bunsile wrap
ned In paper which he left al the
Senate falcon. 1915 Commercial Nv
enue. lie said he was q carpenter
and that the bundle contained soois.
The innocent looking package was w
ing beneath the bar where IT mao
been left for safe keeping, when, ~
some way, ii fell open, exposing "
the bartanders astoniahed- gaze q
II. of burgar's tools. Chief Of Police
Price was notified by telephone Of
the find. In tha meantime the car
nenter'i returned carrying 2 SUIT
case. He took he Iundle into a back
room and put II IN tle care he theh
left the saloon again, leaving the case
with tho bartender.
Chief Price arrived and was giyer
description Of the man he wantol
He found him III short time ana
locked him up in the city jail He
rave his name as Charles Tomson
and his home as Schenectady. n. 7.
The suit care was '-.en taken e
hcadauarters where IL was opened II
the presence of Bulletin reporter
I and the burglar tools removed. Ihert
were chisels, skeleton keys OF various
l kinds, a hammer. steel dri Is, brace
and such ether tools as are used u
blowing a safe. The safeblower wa'
also provided with a latest improves
= Smith and Wesson revolver.
Y When taken before Judge Robinson
V Yesterday morning % be tried on
vsgrancy charge he objected. He re
fused 10 plead guilty 20 such
charge and asked that enc OF hay
ing burglar tools in bis possessio
~ be ubstltatet instead Wncn arres
'c ed Tomson had some money and Tn
vagrancy charge could not have bee
n made good. The only object of an
1t charge was to hold the prisoner III
a, iii investigation could be made an
le the other charge was substituted.
I'd seems that Tomson believed that
n he pleaded guilty TO having burglar
e. tools in his passeFsion and served
re sentence in the city Jail for such {
rs fense, that he could no. be rearrests
On similar charge en- state wa
W rant.
OF Tcneo8 admitted that he was
nj axcanvscs. thet he had been .ntere'
Cd in several rotberies and that
came to Cairo far a purpose.
In a convers alton with Chief Pr.
he sai1 he had no idea Of playing I
ri. fepentart raelet, promising to
aood. snd 20 get religion after he +"
rcleated from jail, which ne seem
confident he would be. He thoue
Pc that when man once became hal
cned criminal such as he is. there
he no reformation.
,er II is believed that Tomson had
~ watch and some other yaluablss wh
o.,g he came here which he gave to
ta gro TO dispose of for him. The mes
-, has not been located, however, q
- hae probably appropriated tie va
.er. ables.
-, Tomson was sentenced 10 200 di
-" in ia1 by Judge Robinson aud If,
-, ,'n the end of that time no further inl
'ne ma,icn is received against him
''So will probably be released. II IS
licved. however, that be may be wa
ed some place.
-, The fact of Tomsons arrest
finding of the tools was not publ
cd Yesterday morning In Difference
'h he wishes of Chief Price vino thou
sus. the rcbber had pal, and VINO nj
% be frightened away by making