The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-04
old MAN BATTLES
WITH A BURGLAR
George Douglass, Aged go, Fatally
Shot While Defending His Home
From Pillage.
MISCREANT ALSO WOUNDED
VISITS A DOCTOR AND is CAP
TURED.

san Jose, Cal, April 3.-The resi-
dence of George Douglass, a wealthy
retired miner from Colorado. was en-
tered by a burglar during last night.
Douglass was aroused and an ex-
change of nine shots followed, Doug
lass being probably fatally wounded.
The burglar. who was hit twice, fled TO
Santa Clara, three miles away. where
he was captured. In his pocket was a
diary giving the number of various
houses I'm Palo Alto and San Fran
CISCO. and the dates on which they
had been robbed by him.
About o'clock this morning Mrs.
Douglass was awakened by a noise in
her sleeping room on the second floor.
She aroused her husband, who got up
and endeavored to turn on the cleo
tricity. only TO discover that it had
been turned off below.
Battle With the Burglar.
his revolver and proceeded down
stairs, where he saw a man stand
ing with a revolver in one hand, eating
a banana. Douglass Immediately fired
and the burglar, dropping the fruit,
replied with a shot and began to back
toward the kitchen, Douglass follow
ing and both firing as they went. The
lamp was dropped and extinguished.
and in the kitchen the burglar clinched
with Douglass and struck him over
the head with the butt of the revolver.
knocking him senseless. The burglar
then escaped.
Douglass was conveyed to the O'COn-
nor sanitariIm. where he is lowering
between life and death with an ugly
wound in his groin. The bullet was
extracted and he may recover.
Murderer Captured.
The burglar about o'clock present
ed himself at the residence of DIR.
Beatty at Santa Clara for treatment
Tor two wounds in the right leg, and
the physician, his suspicious aroused,
telephOned the sheriff's office and dep
UtieS went over and placed the man
under arrest. In the jail the burglar
said his name is Fred Paul, and he
stated that he had two accomplices.
but his statement is discredited by the
police. He said he rode UP from San
Francisco to Palo Alto on a wheel
yesterday afternoon and there met two
men and they arranged for the burg
larry.
Put Out the Ligats.
He put out the electric lights by
means of the switch board on the rear
porch and climbed through a window,
took off his shoes and went through
every room in the house. When he
heard Mr.. Douglass move he slipped
NQtNu SUITS again anu went 10 Jle
dining table and took a banana. He
was eating this when Douglass APP
peared and the shooting began.
In the pocket of the prisoner who
is only IS years old. was found a diary
I'm which he had kept note Of the bur
giaries committed in PalO Alto and in
San Francisco.
The burglar this afternoon told the
sheriff that his true name is Henry
Cramer. that he enlisted in company ].
Fourteenth infantry, regulars, at his
home in Reading. Pa. on June .. 1905.
swearing that he was y years old. and
deserted from the company at Port
land at the beginning of last month.
His diary begins at Portland on March
Q and is closed at San Jose on April 2
It contains details of a number of rob
berries, the total receipts being small.
He stated late today that he had no
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