Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-14
FLYING DUTCHMAN GETS IN.
PatroImen Played Waiting Game
And Landed Two Of the Fell
lows Ai(er Hard Chase.
Other Makes His Escape After Getting
singing Charge From Shotgun--
No More Cheap Chickens.

According to recent market quota
tons. chickens have been cheap.
Well no wonder,
II the system" OF supply and de-
nand, in certain quarters were KEEP ,Ip
chickens would be a great deal cheap
or and even nevspapermen could oc-
casionally dine on the festive fowl.
But this system has been shattered.
punctured as It were. by three unfeellng
officers who are known In Salt Lake as
Charley Sperry, Horace Heath and
Mysterious Jim Taylor. AS a result
Of their worthy efforts, the supply
has been prematurely cut off and this
certain supply will not again be In
vogue until two or three chicken
thieves are released from durance vile
which, II Is hoped, viii be Il long time
Two men are captured. Their appre-
hension was obtained only after a chase
OF about two miles through swamps
barbed wire fences and brush There
were three thieves In the gang. The
third got away by hiding, He was nm
able to run under record time, for OBJ
rlous reasons which viii be mentioned
later,
BEGINNING OF 1T ALL.
For several days complaints have
been coming into police Headquarters
thick and fast about chicken thieves
operating in different parts of town. In
come Instances as many as 80 chickens
have been stolen In one raid The work
was evidently done by experts In this
rNticular line. Entering the coops in
the early hours OF the morning, one
man would deftly break the chickens
necks, and pass the birds to pal who
passed them 10 third The fowls were
iheh loaded into a wagon aud hauled
eNny. Next day an innocent looking
ltrson, representing himself az a farm
81, We 4 dispose OF the ohiciser al The
preva Zig price. This sort OF thing
fert up for several days and then
Chief W. j, Lynch hltched scheme
ihat caused the downfall of the thieves
md the end OF such unlawful traffic.
a SCHEME THAT WORKED.
Officers sperry Heath and Taylor
three OF salt Lakes finest, were de-
tailed on the case. AS general rule.
when these bluecoats get together
there is something doing For four
nights they kept watch in a barn on
Second West between Ninth and Tenth
South-the neighhorhOod where most Of
the thieying had been going on. They
waited patiently but there was nothing
doing. They were al their post J ! t
hight until o'clock this morning. 1t
was not any too warm IN the barn and |
the officers were about TO say enough"
when their keen ears caught the sound |
Of footsteps.
Down the road came three skulking |
figures. That they were the chicken |
thieves was quite evident from their |
suspicious actions. The police proposed |
10 catch the men redhauded so they |
waited yet a little while.
The first place visited by the robbers |
was that of Mrs. Nordstrom, an aged |
Ind poor lady who resides at 1870 south |
Second West street. About dozen fine
fowls were cruelty slain and taken by |
the gang. The leader speedily and,
noiselessly broke the birds necks, after
which the chickens were thrown into
Eacks.
WHEN THE CHASE BEGAN
The next place to attract the atten-
ton Of the thieves was that of an old
Dutchman who claims his name IS
Brown, Whether that Is really his
lame or not does not matter He says |
II Is and he is probably the best Judge.
After leaving Browns place with a
sack full Of chickens, the burglars
started up the street. Sperry. Heath
and Taylor started IN hot pursuit,
Heath was armed with double bar
relied shot gun and three or four pock-
els fun of shells. The other officers
had their revolvers and plenty of am
They called upon the thieves
10 Tpaf 10 tal M fbrae tpKa |
TO lower Whitney's record of ten sec
onds fat for the first hundred wards.
and then tried to beat Duffys record
for the next hundred. The officers
We're In hot pursuit, as also were the
bullets sent with reckless abandon and
IN quick succession at the fleeing
tneaks
Then arose a condition of affairs that
the officers little dreamed of. Tho
Dutchman heretofore mentioned, dis
covered that his hen house had been
made to look as though II had been
moved With the discovery he set his
Jaws with a click that could be heard
Tor half q block. grabbed a modern
winchester repeating rife filed with
steel bullets OF the smokeless powder
persuasion, and with blood in his eye,
or In both eyes, started out for gore
BULLETS THICK AND FAST
Every man the Dutchman saw, and
{ very sound he heard he shot at. The
whole neighborhood was aroused. Men,
women and children in their altogeth-
eis' rushed out OF doors TO witness
what they supposed was a pitched bat
'le Mr.. Brown was angry, and he
expressed his anger with his repeater
What are you trying to do you ---?'
Yelled officer Sperry.
Ping," was the answer, and S.erry
trled hard TO flatten himself over about
fhree square yards Of mother earth.
What are you shooting at?' de-
manded Heath.
Och! | win show NIT you yet
IlngH replied Brown
m the meantime the thieves were
INNING for dear life The officers
'farted IN pursuit shooting as they ran,
Wlh the irate Dutchman at their rear
szing away as best he knew how
Brown suddenly discovered that on
Ing.
TWO THIEVES CAPTURED.