Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-13
h. ALL|NCTONS
NEW STATEMENT
Young Man Connected With West
Side Sunday Night Affair
Goes on Record.
WRITES OF HIS ADVENTURES.
Tells His Version of What Happened
When He Entered the West
wood Ward Store.

Harold Arlington. the young man
who told the strange tale of the burn
Ing of westwoods grocery store, is
still in the city jail. The police have
failed so far TO shake him In the alb
surd story he told as published in
last evenings News" and this morn
ing the matter was laid before the
county attorney. Young Arlington was
asked this morning to give n written
account of his adventures" ON the
night OF the fire and responded as fol-
lows:
The full account OF the Westwood
fire and robbery as far as / know:
Making an evening call at Miss VIII
sons residence at No. s south Tenth
West. j left there about as near as l
can tell at 11;15, from which l walked
straight home. After returning home
] went around the west side of the
store and took out my keys and opened
the door. l stepped up into the store
and turned to shut the door still hold
ing to the door with my left hand.
Just then sudden bright light flashed
on the door and as l turned quick to
see what it was, three shots We're fired
which hit the door l was holding. l
could not see anything because the
was fired, / thought Of my gun and /
made a quick step toward the bed
when / bumped up against man. !
looked up and saw a handkerchief
around his face. Just then as looked
up everything went black and l could
see nothing.
II Dslt something pulling on my
clothes. l tried TO get up but staggered
out of the back door. / heard no one
speak or move nor did / see any fire.
Then / found myself lying on bed and
people standing by me asking me ques-
tons; then / thought of my gun and
they told me everything was all right.
My head panied me so ] could hardly
see. / remember the doctor coming and
pushing on my head. which made II
ache worse. / remember Albert West.
wood asking me how / was and told
him l was all right. but my head ached.
They told me that the store was burned.
Then l asked them if they got the fell
lers that hit me and they said no.
Then Joe Westwood came in and laid
down and said his hand was bleeding
I thought he had been mixed up with
It, too, but he said he cut IT trying to
get in the store. Then they took my
shoes off and l felt that my ankle was
sore. / looked at II and found two big
blisters, but do not know what caused
them. Then went to bed but could not
sleep for jumping every time l went to
sleep. Next morning i got up and
went outside to see the store they said
had burned. l walked around awhile
and then went back into the house and
went to my trunk to get a handker-
chief, and as / got there, Intending to
have to break the lock, found that II
was unlocked. / opened 1t up and found
everything turned upside down and the
box our money was in wide open and
nothing here but deck of cards which
had been opened and strewed around
the box. I shut the trunk UP and went
and told the folks to come and look al
my trunk. ! don't know whether there
Is anything else missing or not. have
not been to my trunk since.
III. II. ARLINGTON"