The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-17
DRIVEN TO BAY
BY Merry LAD
Two-hundred-pound Brute Assaults a
Six-year-old Girl.
HUNTED WITH SHOTGUNS
THREATENS TO KILL YOUNG BOY
ON HIS TRAIL.

n OGGING the footsteps of a 200
II pound brute whom a weeping
mother had pointed out to him,
Alva Blake, a 17-year-old boy, braved
clubs ana blows, and only abandoned
his chase when the fugitive drove him,
at reVoiver'S point, from a moving
train. Up to a late hour last night the
police and sheriff's deputies were hunt
ing the man, who had assaulted a
6-year-old girl on the City and County
building grounds. Between this city
and Murray men were out with loaded
shOtgunS.
Young Blake began the pursuit after
the mother, frantic at the story Of her
little girl, had chased the man from
q vacant lot near Fifth South and
State streets. The little girl had met
the fellow earlier in the day. Missing
her daughter, the mother was first
worried, then wild with anxiety. The
little girl came to her in the afternoon
and told her story. The man was still
in sight and the mother ran toward
MN. He retreated as she approached,
ana finally broke into run Then
young Blake met the woman.
She was crying" said the boy, and
told me TO follow that man till 1 could
1ind an officer. 1 asked her what was
her address, and then 1 followed him
The Boy Was Game.
Follow him the boy did He kept as
close as possible behind the fugitive
who was making his way in a zig-zag
course south and west. Once the man
stopped and picked up pi 'ce of two
by-four. He faced about and came
toward the boy. The latter stood his
ground, and as several men were COM
ing into sight, the fellow started on
again. At mother time he lay in wait
behind a haystack near the Portland
Cement company's plant, but the boy
saw him just in time.
Here George Palmer met young
Blake, who told him what little he
knew and what he had surmised about
the affair. He begged Palmer to tele-
phone to the police. This he did at
once
The patrol wagon, with Sergeant
Roberts and Driver Will Armstrong
was driven as fast as possible to the
cement works. Two minutes before
its arrival the fugitive had Ieaped
aboard sOuthbound freight train.
Young Blake. first filing his pockets
with rocks. boarded the train. He
was on ladder, looking down along
the cars for his quarry, when he heard
a noise above his head. Looking up. he
saw the man he had been pursuing.
he held revolver and said:
Jump off or I'll blow off your head!-
Blake leaped off and made his way
TO the cement works.
Country Up in Arms.
INpbeIlS nOLl0eQ the county lalI and
headquarters. Word was sent to Muir
ray at once. Making a hurry-up run
back 10 the passenger station. Roberts
had the dispatchers telegraph the
mans description down the road
Later, i'm company with Detectives
Raleigh and Shannon and young
Bake, he took "A double rig and drove
down to Murray. looking along the
railway track for the man wanted.
Meantime Deputy Marshal William
Caldwell of Murray had kept watch
OF the freight train. but had seen
nothing of the fugitive. From section
men he learned that a man answer
ing the description had started afoot
back toward Salt Lake. He at once
notified parties on Fourteenth South
and Twelfth South streets of the facts
and these men went out with loaded
shotguns on the hunt.
In Bingham Junction the train crew
searched the freight cars. but found no
trace of the man. The search was
kept up IL Murray and Salt Lake until
early morning, but up to that time had
not resulted in 2 capture.