Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-05-21
CHARGE DOPE IhEFI
ARREST LOUIS A. BoUGHNER
FoR BURGLARY AND LARCENY
Northcraft Drug Store Broken Into
Early This Morning-Thief
Escapes While Edmund
son Hunts Gun
rrrom saturday Daily.I

| TnOmaH EumunubOHl uiBHL WdtCu-
man, stood In front OF the Abilene
Candy Kitchen about l o'clock this
morning. His gun was in the White
Way restaurant on Second street,
locked up. He heard crashing noise
in the rear OF the stores on the west
side OF Cedar street, as Of door
being splintered. He started on n
run to the White Way, and on his
way east up Third street met VIII
Hershey, returning home on. a
wheel. Edmundson stopped Her.
shey and asked him to watch the
aliey back OF Cedar in the rear OF
the stores. Hershey stopped at the
corner of Third and Cedar streets
and soon saw a man come out of
the alley on the run, and go west
up Third street.. When Edmundson'
returned there was no thief in sight.
The door in the rear OF Northcraft'si
81 ore had been smashed in with an
ak. Chief Engle had been telephone.
ed for and was down town at 1:1So
Engle and Edmundson entered the
store and searched the building up-
stairs: and in the cellar Nothing
seemed to be disturbed. ,f, ]. .
:. q. iBs iMalott was notified and
reachea the store about 1:25. After
hurried inventory Mr.. Malott was.
unaBls to report anything missing.
The cash register had not been tam
pered with, and seemingly nothing
had been taken. This morning, Mr..
Maiott discovered that some NOR.
phInS and. cocaine tablets had been
stolen from the prescription count
er at the rear of the. store. ...s
'Suspicion fixed upon Louis A..
Boughner. said to be a dope fiend.
A Warrant was sworn out this morn
ing BIZ Arthur Hurd, county attor-.
ney, charging Boughner with the
burglary Boughner and his aunt,
Miss Eepapaa East, an aged woman,
live khAhet home OF Mrs, Agnes sib--
bald, S1S West North Sixth street,
Boughner, who is between 80 and
35 years of age, is we'll known
character here. Mrs. .Sibbald said
today that Boughner had been gone
most of the night. Mrs. Sibbald
heard Miss Best calling for Boughner
shortly after / o'clock. About 4 8
o'clock Mrs, sibbald heard a door
close. and believed,G that BOughners1
had returned. aaa q
Ednundson says that he had been
carrying his gun around with him
and that 1t was getting rusty. So
he left the gun at the White Way.
He carries a key to the. restaurant,
which is not open all night. After
heard the noise at the
Northcraft store. he had to runs to
The White Way and unlock the place
to bring the belated artillery into
action. The thief did not wait.
E. B. Malott said this morning
that he believed that 100 grains of
and 100 grains of cocaine
had been taken from the prescrip-
ton case. The dope was in bottles
and the bottles in boxes. The value
81 the dope believed to have been
taken is about 50. A supply of these
articles was received recently. Mr..
Malott said that Boughner had not
been hanging around the store.
The ak used to smash the door
belongs to the drug store, and was
left in shed across the alley. The
door of the shed was not locked.
Abilene Knights attended the
Meeting Of the X. of P. lodge at
Solomon last night and assisted in
he third degree work After the
business session a lunch was served
md social time enjoyed. The trip
vas made in motor cars. Among
hose who went were Chris Bath, A.
Nocht, L. o. verckler, e. E. Swan
icy, Charles Graham, VIII Sterl, F.
\. Wilcox, c. R. Baer, H. w. Rob-
er, Joseph Goodell. Fl Iandes