Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-02
WOMAN CAPTURES
SUSPECT TERROR
Boyle Heights Matron with Revol-
YER CompeIS Prisoner to
March Ahead of Her
STOPS STRANGE MAN BY GUN
Supposed Offender Slips Away as
Warrant Is Being Made
Out; EIudeS Police
STOPS STRANGE MAN BY GUN

Compelling a man she believed 10
be the Boyle Heights terror to enter
her home and breakfast on tea ana
biscuits, and later bringing him down
town under the same competing an
fiuence, was the achievement Oh MIS-
Margaret Reardon, 2754 Winter street.
Yesterday. She would have landed the
man in Jail pending an investigator
of his record but for the fact thal
he slipped away while she was swear
ing to a warrant for his arrest ana
an attempt was being made to photo
graph him. - 49,,
name of William Smith and said ne
had been working at grazing calhp
near Ramona convent. She pelleVes
he has been prowling about her home
and obtained a warrant in Ponce
Judge williams court for his arrest
on a vagrancy charge. Officers are
looking for him. -
Smith Is a man between 40 and 6U
years old and has a peculiar walk pe-
tween a slouch and limp, Mrs. Rear-
don says, that tallies in several IN
stances with reports made TO the po-
lice by victims of the Boyle Helghts
assailant His story to Mrs. Reardon,
according to her report to the district
attorneys office, was conflicting IN
many details.
Several times he attempted to run
from the woman, she says, as she es-
corted him from her home down town.
but she halted him with threat TO
shoot if he did not stop.
BOUGHT a REVOLVER
'I saw him this morning in my back
yard" she said yesterday. lie acteu
suspiciously and appeared to be at
tempting to find place to secrete him
self. For months, all during the time
that women and their escorts nave
been attacked near my home, l nave
been disturbed at night by a man
prowling around my house and tam
pering with the windows and locks
on the doors. Several times I have
seen him running away into the
night and once he clambered to a sec
ond-story window and dropped to the
ground when he saw 1 had discovered
him. l had purchased revolver to
protect myself the day before and fired
ah him twice through door that led
on an open porch and once from the
window. 1 heard him cry out as If
in pain as he ran away and leaped
over a fence"
Yesterday, when this man who said
his name was Smith saw me in the
doorway he climbed over the backyard
fence and ran across a vacant lot l
seized a revolver and tOllOWed nlIn
When l threatened to shoot If he did
not stop running he stopped short. His
story to me was conflicting.
GAVE HIM BREAKFAST
with the revolver held at his head
l drove him into my house and gave
him tea and biscuits to breakfast on.
All the while he kept begging to be al
lowed to go, telling me 1t seemed to
make him awfully nervous. After he
had drank a little tea I put on my hat
and with him before me we walked
down town. I held the gun in my
hand covered by paper.
"Three times he attempted to run
away but the gun stopped him. I hope
he is caught, for I feel sure he is the
man who is prowling around this dis
trict. He answers the description of
the man I fired upon, although 1t
was quite dark. His peculiar slouchy
walk is one of the things that stand
out clearly in my memory"
Deputy District Attorney Veetch, who