The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-11

w year-OId and a six-year-oId gal
liant in Salt Lake committed
burglary.
1t all grew out Of feminine love for
dress on the part of 7-year-old Hazel
Morgan and 5-year-oId Lucy Morgan.
daughters of John Morgan, 46S North
Fifth West street. The little girls
wanted the bright clothing for their
dolls. They appealed to two youthful
very youthful-knights, and their ap-
peal was not in vain Gilbert Holmes,
aged 8 years, and Wesley Holmes, aged
is years, sons of John Holmes. 452 North
Fifth West street, with all the gal
lantry of those brave men who sought
the holy grail, rushed into adventure
for their ladies fair
The four children broke into the resi-
dence Of Frank w. Sweet, AIS North
Fifth West street, Wednesday after
noon and carried away an armful Of
silks, cOlored ribbons and beaded lace
Innocent in their minds of the crime
they had committed, they took the
scraps of cloth to their play house,
where they spent the afternoon making
doll clothes.
But their dream Of bliss was inter
rUpted, and the fruits of their adven-
ture were taken away. Big policemen
seized the bold knights and their ladies
fair. Then followed an awful success
sion of scenes. There was a police
station, with big men wearing stars
and uniforms questioning them. Then
they were taken before a judge, and
visions of life behind the bars doomed
I'D before them
They escaped the life in the peniten-
tiary- But four children sobbed them
selves to sleep in deepest sorrow last
night. And the beloved dolls Of the
two little girls still wore their old and
shabby clothes
Girls Give Aid.
Entrance into the house was gained
by one Of the little girls reaching
through a hole in the wire screen and
unlocking it. Gilbert and Wesley az
sisted them to climb through the win
dow. They rummaged through every
drawer in the house, turned the clothes
out on the floor, but took nothing but
scraps OF cloth for doll rags Two
small pins set with brillants were also
found and these were carried away for
doll hat pins
Some beer chips were picked by one
of the boys on the bedroom floor, and
these afterwards led to their detec-
ton by the officers
During the afternoon, while the little
girls were making doll clothes, the
bows thinking the chips were money.
tried to buy candy with them at the
Twenty second ward store When De
tective George Chase investigated the
affair he learned that Gilbert and Wes-
ley had tried to pass chips at the
store In the report of the stolen artl-
cIes Mr.. Sweet had mentioned the fact
that a number of beer checks had been
taken
Detective Chase went to the boys and
they told the story Of how they had
helped Hazel and Lucy search for doll
clothes. The children turned over all
the scraps they had taken and also the
worthless pins described by Mr. Sweet
as valuable diamonds" The latter
also claimed thai a SO greenback had
been stolen, but the children say that
they did not take il. The police are
Inclined to believe that the ''greenback'
had been misplaced by Mr. Sweet
Children Tell Their Story.
At the police station yesterday after
noon the four children told their story
To Chief of Police William Lynch
I'VE wanted some new doll clothes,
Hazel uttered between sobs, so Gill
bert and Wesley helped US 1 saw some
red ribbon and some pretty pieces Of
cloth through the window so reachea
through the screen and unlocked 1t,
1 took the ribbon and then Gilbert said
that maybe there was some more doll
rags inside. He helped me and Lucy
to climb in the window When we got
inside. Gilbert and Wesley opened the
drawers and we looked for doll rags
We found lots of pretty pieces OF SILK
and beads. We found some pins. too,
and took them for our dolls. When
we got the drawers out we couldn't
get them back in again, SO we LETT
everything on the floor"
Did you take $40 out Of d drawer
the little girl was asked.
Hazel shook her head and said she
did not know what SO looked like.
The officers showed her SO, but she
said they only took some little pieces
of money they found on the table The
other children told the same story.
Stole For the Girls.
why did you go into Mr. Streets
house and steal his things" Gilbert
was asked.
Hazel and Lucy wanted some doll
rags" the boy replied, and so me and
my brother helped them do it."
At Judge Willis Browns court the
children told the same story, and the
court tried to explain to them that they
had done wrong. The little girls cried
as if their hearts would break and
promised Judge Brown that they would
never take anything that did not be
long to them
The little girls carried all their pretty
doll rags back to Mrs. Sweet last night,
and dressed their dolls in their old
faded clothes
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