Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-14
PHYSICIAN GIVES
CHASE TO BURGLAR
AFTER DASH DR.. TYCE FACES
OWN REVOLVER
Entrance to Residence Gained in
Mysterious Manner, and Sew
eral Articles of Value
Are Stolen

PASADENA, Jan. 13-Confronted by
+he members Of the household returned
unexpectedly at about 4 O'Clock, a day
light burglar jumped from the second
story window of the home of DR.. X. y
Tyce. 2S4 South Madison avenue, ana
in spite of injuries sustained, stood OH
DR.. Tyce with the doctors own re-
volver and finally made his escape
after a dash across several back yards
and through the Mckinley school
grounds. ,,,-,.
DR.. Tyce has a handsome establish
ment on South Madison avenue. Thls
afternoon he and Mrs. Parish, mother
of Maxfield Parish, the artist and IL
illustrator, and an attendant, for Mrs.
Parish is not well, went out for an
automobile ride. Mrs. Parish became
cool and the party returned for wraps.
Mrs. Parish found her room mad peen
ransacked, some valuaLles being miss
ing. She stepped on the porch ana
called the doctor, who was still in the
machine and just then a short, thick
set man opened one of the upper win
dows of the house, jumped about TWEEN
ty feet to the ground and started to
run around to the rear of the house.
DR. Tyce was instantly in full pur-
suit, and as the man had evidently
hurt himself by his jump, the medical
man was fast overtaking him when the
burglar, brought to bay, turned and
drew DR.. Tyce's own revolver which
he had found in the house. "Come an
other STEP" shouted the man, "and
I'll blow your brains out"
DR.. Tyce jumped into the shelter of
the garage and the burglar, seeing he
was not followed, scaled a fence and
ran eastward through back yards. He
reached the street, dashed across the
Mckinley school yard and down an
alley.
He was evidently hurt. for he stopped
at barn and asked the owner If he
could go in and rest He was ordered
away by the proprietor of the barn
who, of course, knew nothing of the
burglary. Then the burglar proceeded
to the southeast and all trace Of him
was lost.
One of the remarkable things about
the case is that there is no trace of
the way in which the man entered the
house All the windows save the one
from which the man jumped were
found locked and he could not have
climbed in by the window through
which he made his exit. The doors
were also locked and the front door
has Yale lock, so that a skeleton
kew would not have opened 1t.
Even in his flight the burglar did not
drop the few things of value he had
had time to find. He took with him
five or six dollars in money, a gold
coin watchcharm and several other
things. While ransacking the house
the man had discovered a knife used
for erasing purposes, the keen blade of
which had evidently cut him badly,
for traces of blood were found all over
the house and the knife point was
smeared with blood.
The robbery of the house of DR.. Tyce
was followed by an equally daring at
tempt on the home of D. G. Forbush,
663 Arbor street, at $50 o'clock this
afternoon. Entrance was gained by
breaking the glass out of the front
door and the robber, who got clean
away, took with him two antique stick
pins, three smaller pins, a revolver and
about SO in money.