The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31
County Attorney Refuses Com
plant for Youth Caught
With Stolen Property.
NUMEROUS ESCAPES FROM
PUNISHMENT ARE NOTED
Authorities Apparently Blind to
Depredations of Young Lund
and Companions.


1906 Emerson avenue. IN what might apt
IL be termed his course OF instruction
for 'The Making Of Criminal when
County Attorney Job p. Lyon refused TO
issue complaint on Wednesday. July
% charging the young man with grand
larceny. Lund had stolen a horse and
buggy from Liberty park on Tuesday
July 26. and was arrested while In the
act Of driving away with it by Patrol
man Cleveland. He was taken TO the
police station and charged with grand
larceny. Joe Jermy, the owner OF the
horse and buggy, refused to prosecute
The case. but Patroln1nn Cleveland Of
fered to sign the complaint. Jenny hao
been seen by the father of Lund and
had agreed not TO prosecute, after which
both had visited the office of the county
attorney, who then refused TO issue the
complaint.
Their Previous Records.
The Lund boys first came to the no
tice OF the police authorities when, with
two other boys. they were arrested Tor
breaking Into the garage of Frank Do
ran OF 1912 South Sixth East street
stealing an automobile and abandoning
the machine In q damaged condition at
Pennington. They we're arrested and
taken TO the police station. but the own
er OF the machine refused 10 prosecute
lccIurcd by the authorities and released.
Perry Lund and j.. i. Lund were mixed
up in the theft OF the machine. accord
ing 10 the police That offense was COM
mitted shortly before October 2S. 1909.
at which date the boys were arrested.
II. G. McNeicc, dean of the Westmin-
ster college. reported TO the police ON
April last. that the college buildings
had been entered by vandals and prop
crty valued at $500 had been destroyed.
Dean McNeice said that much of the
property consisted Of raro books. pho
tographic plates and curios, and that IL
could not be replaced.
Chief OF Police Barlow detailed CHIEF
cf Detectives George Sheets, Lieutenant
Shannon and Detective Chase TO work on
the case and when the buildings were
searched a business card, bearing the
names of the Lund boys, their addresses
and their business as expert shinSers, |
was found
Taken by Night Watchman.
Then came to light one of those curl
Gus incidents which may be found hap |
pening TO men who devote their lives to
the search and apprehension OF crimi- |
nails. Numerous reports had been reach
ing the department that various citizens
had been held up and whilc searching
for the loldups. Edward Mitchell. n night
watchman employed by the property
owners ON Brigham street. arrested a
youth who answered the descriptions.
When Night Watchman Mitchell took
the youth TO the police station and
searched him. he gave the name OF il. |
A. Lund, and had In his pocket q nickel |
plated hammerless Smith e Wesson re-
volvcr. OF -3s caliber. j pair of wire pill
ers. IL small nicltel-plated monkey |
wrench. some money. and a large, blue.
polka dot handkerchief, the diagonal
corners OF which had been knottod,
Mitchell had been watching the youth |
for perhaps an hour before he arrested
him and had seen him 20 TO the door OF
the Brigham street pharmacy and try it |
,c,1lx no Ctn " f.ln n IHfN
time. The youth acted as though he
were waiting for someone to join him, |
but his actions. and the fact that he an
swercd the descriptions of the holdup,
caused the watchman to take him to the |
station.
After being searched. and before he
was led away to n cell. Lieutenant Shan |
non asked the youth for his name. The |
youth took a card from his pocket and, |
tossing 1t to the lieutenant. said that II
bore his name and business, II was then
that Lieutenant Shannon saw that he
was looking Mt the same sort OF a bust |
ness card that had been found IN the
college buildings.
Confessions TO Police.
When Chief OF Detectives Sheets ar
rived AT the station. the boy was brought
before him and questioned as TO why lie
had destroyed the property at the col
lege. He said that he and his cousin, |
p. c.. Lund had destroyed the property.
but lie questioned the amount when
Chief Sheets told him that the property
destroyed would amount to $500. The
confession OF the Lund boy was made
before Chief Sheets and Jailer Wilkenson.
Complaints charging the boys with the
their trials set for Nav l2 In Judge
Bowman's court. The jury that heard
the case was composed OF f.. NJ. Shurt-
1iT. Charles w. Olsen. w. ]. Glade and
3. L. Ribein.
Charles O'Brien. the jantor of the col
lege. testified to having made his rounds
OF the buildings on Monday night. April
4. and TO have found everything in good
condition. The following morning, he
said, he hadS entered the building and had
discovered that vandals had broken into
the buildings and that property. consist
ing of valuable and rare books pamph-
lets. Photographic plates and various
curios. had been destroyed
Earl L. Wilson of 1903 South Eleventh
East street testified TO having gone to
the college buildings with O'Rrien. and
10 have seen the business cards OF the
Lund boys on the floor. Asked what he
had done with the cards, Wilson said
that he had left them where he had
found them.
Chief Of Detectives Sheets testified
that the confession had been made, after
which both OF the Lund boys took the
that they had not made the confession.
Prosecution Is Weak.
During the progress OF the trial. the
jurors did not seem Interested In the
outcome. nor did the assistant county
attorney. who d!d not make any great
endeavor to prove the acts OF vandalism
Regardless of the fact that the boys had
been mixed up in other troubles. ten
witnesses testified TO the good characters
of the boys prior to their arrest for the
destruction OF the property at tho college
The jury remained out an hour and then
returned verdict OF not guilty.
When Joe Jenny reported the theft of
his horse and buggy from Liberty park
on Monday night. July 25, he said that
he would furnish another horse and
buggy ii the department. would furnish,
him with man 10 help in the search
for the stolen horse and buggy. Lieu
tenant HeInpcl detailed Patrolman Clcyc-
land 10 go with Jenny. In reporting the
matter of the theft. Jcrmy said that he
had been told by the boatman at the
park that the Lund boys were lying OH
the grass and were watching him after
he had been told 10 tie his horse TO the
fence in the rear OF the old mill.
Patrolman Cleveland drove TO the VI
cintv of tho residence OF II. A Iund
and before long he saw the boy driving
along the street in the stolen outfit. Pa
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