Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-03
GREAT CHANCE
FOR De ELECTIVE.
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Deductlye Powers Of Salt Lake
Police Brought to Bear
Upon Crime.
QUESTION: MAN, OR A WOMAN
Mysterious Robbery of Office OF Elias
Morris .& sons During the
Dark Hours of Night.
"vho broke into Elias Morris &

''JVho broke into Elias Motifs y
1 Sons office on Richards street last
night?''
WAS 1t Il man. woman or enid
/ These are questions asked by the To-
! cal police today and there is q grand
chance for some blue coat to distln-
! guish himself and put to q test the DC
I ductive methods made famous BY SIT
| Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes
| series.
Sergeant Henry Johnston has UNDER
| taken the task and thinks he has sew
/ eral important clues. Here Is what ne
| has to work upon:
Some time last night the office was
| broken into Three heavy hammers
used in ctopping marble, and a square
| were taken A desk In the main office
was pried open with n jimmy but
so far as known nothing was taken
from the desk. Another desk IN which
| reposed about SIS worth of stamps was
not molested.
Entrance was gained by breaking a
small pane OF glass in a rear door aft
ter which the thief unboltcd the door
and entered the main workroom.
A tool chest was pried open appar-
entity with a Jimmy and three ham
mors and q square taken. Other tools
We're wrapped UP iii q sack, but were
teItl thefc. Alter breaking mo inc
chest, the intruder smashed a pane of
glass in the door between the work
room and the main office. The desk
was then pried open but Mr. Morris
said nothing was taken therefrom.
TELL. TALE FRENCH HEELS.
When the officer arrived on the scene
this morning he found fotprints in the
soft soil at the rear OF the shop. The
u Il
muddy. Several distinct marks were de-
tected They We're made by ~ small
shoe with n French heel But, the
prying open of the heavy tool chest IN
dicated that the job was done by
man. Then, the force with which the
glass window was broken indicates
great strength because the glass was
scattered across the room. the Jim
my" was. applied with considerable
force on the desk. On the carpet near
the desk was found another footprint
and the French heel was again in evil
dence. On the desk was found the re-
mains of two peaches. At the rear of
the office was found n womans blouse
waist made of cheap material. but
there We're no marks on the same.
Did q woman do the job? II so. she
left tell-tale footprints. II a woman
robbed the place, would she have
been so calm as to sit down and
quietly eat couple Of luscious peach
es? Could g. woman or a boy have
smashed the windows and pried open
n heavy tool chest and roller top
desk Or, did a man do the job and
make tho footprints with a borrowed
shoe; eat peaches and leave them and
the waist for the purpose Of averting
suspicion and putting to naught the
we'll known deductive powers of tho
Salt Lake police?
DARK PLOT THICkENS.
Perhaps the crime was committed
by clever safe cracker who borrow
ed the banners to break the combin-
alton of some downtown safe. Per
haps he had already robbed a cloth
ing store and left the waist at the
rear of the Morris office in his flight.
Who knows?
But. If professional safe cracker
did the job, why did he not crack the
big safe in the office? The task of
making visit to every store was too
soon as thought of, and yet, before
night, there may be terrible hub
Sub over some daring piece of villany.
If a boy did the job, what was he
doing with shirt waist? What did
he want with three hammers and a
square? IT a woman did 1t, the same
questions are applicable. If it was
done by some fair cracksman, or
crackswoman. perhaps curiosity was
the motive and she merely took the
hammers and square. devoured the
peaches and lief: the shirt waist to
throw the sleuths off the scent No
grave stones We're taken. Again, Is
there woman so brave as to steal
into IL srayestone yard at midnight?
1t is certainly a nice question, In
fact q bunch of nice questions; but
Sergeant Johnston is determined to
unravel the profound mystery and n
new clue is expected at any moment.
Johnston says that he has already de-
cided that the person who committed
the crime had q small foot. a large
body and plenty of muscle
An attempt was also made to break
into tho engraving plant of De Bouzcl1
& Huntze. at 81 west South Temple.