The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-13
SALT LAKE AND
STATE NEWS
BOY SHOT DOWN BY
COW ARDTY BURGLAR

SAIL LANE. OCl. l4s-ct ctdIlltu III
to flight by the sounds OF footsteps
on the stairway, a burglar suddenly
confronted by 1i-year-old school
boy, at 1880 o'clock, today, in the
lattcr's home. fired three shots from
a revolver into the lads body and
rushed through the Kitchen door The
victim. Thomas r, KarTlck. started In
pursuit of the robber. but fell dying
on the steps OF the portico just as
physician. who had dashed toward
him from a street car, was about to
administer an opiatc Blood was
streaming copiously from the boys
wounds and he could utter no word TO
explain the tragedy.
Young Kerrlck is a student In the
Bryant High school He was shot
three tlmcs-twice over the heart and
once in the right wrist Either of
the wounds In the breast might have
been fatal.
Wounded Boy Runs Out OF Home
AS car 400 turned the corner from
First South steet on TO Thirteenth
East at just IL 30 o'clock. a man on
the front platform saw the boy run
from the front door OF the Karrlck
home. which sets high on the terrace.
Blood was streaming from his back
He ran as far as the top of the ter
race and then pitched headlong down
the slope.
DR. ] Lloyd Woodruff w0s a pas
senger on the car and one OF the
first to reach the PROSTATE body Of
young Karrlck, which lay with the
feet towards the top of the terrace
and the head resting on the pave
ment DR. Woodruff reached for the
boys pulse and found that life had
not vet become extinct. He hurriedly
administered a hypodermlc injection
of strychniue. but before the drug
could act the boy was dead Motor
man Dan Parl Parker, Conductor
Robert Spillar and the physician then
carried the boy into the house.
Cooks His Own Meals.
Tom was pupil at the Bryant
school. He has two brothers, Samuel
y. and Ioyis c. Karrck There is
one sister. Denise. All but Tom at
tended the university. Mrs. Kerrick
is away from the home during the
day and there is no one to cook the
boys midday meal He generally
cooks this himself
Today he left school at the usual
time He came home as is shown,
and cooked a Hight meal in the kit
chen and sat down to eat it in the din
Ing room About this time he prob
ably heard noise He possibly
started upstairs to investigate. That
he got no farther than the landing is
shown by n pool of blood there and
bullet shot into the wall as If from
the loot OF the stairs
Four Shots Fired.
1t is possible that the boy and the
burglar met on the landing and
clincbed. That he was reaching for
the revolver is shown by the wound
on the right wrist Four shots In
all were fired
The revolver with which the boy
was killed was Colts As calIbre
army gun belonging to the National
guard, OF which the older brother
ouis is a member. It was found by
the police in coal scuttle in the
kitchen with two bullets not fired
and four empty cartridges The
back door of the home was open.
Upstairs in tho KarTicl home was
found a strange travelling bag On
the beds Of the different rooms were
La d out shotguns and other yalu-
ables that were being bundled up
ready to carry away
When the boy was carried into the
home a telephone call was sent for
his brothers and sisters. Louis Kar-
rick hurried TO the home The moth
or of the dead boy was not located
until over an hour after. Denise. the
sister tainted away when the news
was brought to her
Police on the Scene.
Lieutenant Richard Shannon and
Detective Earl Ripley with George
Moore and a mounted officer were
first on the scene. Lieutenant Shan
non conducted a thorough inyestiga-
ton He developed the fact that the
family had lately had man working
doing some cleaning. \ Mr.. Rhodes.
connected with the Vacuum Cleaning
company sent the man He had
worked for several days. The police
are on his trail
sloodhounds on Trail
Whoever shot yovng KaTrick 10
death was bad man. He took no
chances and must have opened fire
on the boy the minute he was dis
covered He went out the back door.
leaving it open. and large footprints
in the soft earth show that he was
n large man and wore old shoes. The
bloodhounds from the state prison are
to be called in to try and trace the
man by scent
The murderous burglar evidently
knew that the Karrck family were
away from home during the early
middle part of the day. He had evi-
IDENTIFY gone over the ground and
knew it well He entered the house
through cellar window, his foot
prints showing on the coal-Die in the
basement.
Shotgun Missing
b. r. Howell. A lawyer with Van
Cott, Allison & Ritter boards with
the Karricks lie has a room across
the hall from the room OF Louis Moth
ing there was molested. The room OF
Louis and Tom both were hauled ov-
or. One shotgun is missing, it is
said. and may possibly furnish Il
clew Louis Karrick saws that the
weapon which the burglar used was
in a suit case in his room when he
left home this morning, The burg
lar when he heard young Karrick
come into the home. must have
grabbed it and started 10 get away
PIucky Boy.
Young Tom Karrick was known
among his fellows AT school as a very
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