Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-09-03
A TOUGH
SALEM
YOUTH
Alfred Hansen Thirteen Year
Old Salem Boy Comes TO
GRIFFIN Portland

q who lives near Salem on the Silver
q ton road, and who was arrested il
q Portland Saturday night by Polio
Detective Bruin, is, according to tn,
story he tells the Portland police
d one of the most hardened younl
\ criminals of the country.
He confesses to being a sneak
thief tramp, porch climber and
purse snatcher.
He was, arrested at the street rail.
way station at First and Alder
streets in Portland, while trying to
snatch woman's purse. He was in
company with another boy, named
Vance Knapp, who is 8 years old.
Taught to steal by an elder broth
er when still in babyhood, and, ac.
cording to his statement, brutally
maltreated by his sire, in the natural
evolution of the boy his criminal
tendencies were developed far be-
/ yond his immature years.
Following an assault on him by his
father with an ak handle last Octo.
Der, the boy ran away from his home
on the Silverton road near Salem
and went to Harrisburg. There he
secured a position with DR.. Dale,
who took a great fancy to the child
and sent him to school. For six
months he led an exemplary life un-
It'll he heard that his father intended
to compel him to return hom. Then
he repaid the benevolence and char
ity of his employer by stealing $40
and disappearing.
From Harrisburg he went to AL
bany and then to Portland, arriving
there in April. He followed Norris
& Rowe's circus to Pendleton, when |
he was arrested by the police, but
subsequently turned loose. Walla |
Walla was his next stopping place.
He returned to Portland and struck
up an acquaintance with Knapp.
The two lads became fast friends
and the only theft they will admit to
as having been committed at that
time is the purloining of some cloth
Ing from First street store.
While there Hansen fell in with
Earl Heigley, who is wanted by the
authorities for having escaped from
detention home. Heigley and Han
sen next went to Tacoma, and while
mere robbed a bakery till of $3.50
rhe club house in the ball park Of
erred great inducements and Hanson :
tole pair of trousers of one of the
players from locker, securing
amount Of money from
he pockets. Seattle was the next
lty In their itinerary, and while in
ne sound city they robbed a number
4 rooms, They followed the Fore.
augh 4 Sells circus from this point
nd visited Spokane, Bellingham.
'entralia and Tacoma. At Tacoma Z
Ieigly and Hansen had disagree 5
lent and the partnership was dis q
)lved. &
Hansen finally landed again IN
ortland and sought to gain liyeu. p
ood by the sale of lemonade. This a
nsiness was not lucrative, and last a
thursday he met Knapp. They Sc ~
cted the space under the Pine NJ
rect dock as their headquarters. t'
Then commenced their thieyerv b
'u until Saturday they escaped de- ca
otion and arrest. The money Sc &c
Ired from the two purses stolen in
9 city park they squandered al the tu
AXIS and for confectionery. After II
ealing the trousers they went TO the &C
'A ana discarded their old apparel da
the new knickerbockers. The al
rise stolen from Mrs, Shelton con. vi
'hed a gold watch and 1896. which OF
Is round ON the prisoners. The an
'ohel they dropped under m. tn
larf. wv de
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