Arizona republican., 1921-04-26
YOUTHFUL BANDIT
 ADDS TO RECORD BY
 POSTOFF|cE THEFT

| POS|OFF|CE IHEFl |
 MESA, April 25-Operating along 1 lines similar to those of week ago when he went through the office of the Foxworth- Bush Lumber company and helped himself to sundry things and later relived a conlrade of 50 cents at the point of a gun, Mesa S youthful bandit. lad of years, Sun i day afternoon broke into the post | office lockbox of the First National bank of Mesa and made away with | remittance letters containing hun dreds of dollars worth of checks. More 1 than $100 worth of checks which were taken. together with other mail matter from the box, were still miss | ing Monday.
 l The little fellow on Sunday after noon of the week before took a re- volver from a desk In the Foxworth- Bush Lumber company which was recovered the next day when com panion told of the holdup which he had witnessed. Tracing down the holdup victim the officers found that he had been relieved of 50 cents at l the point of a gun and ascertained from him who the holdup man was.
 Last Sunday afternoon the lad rifled the lock box in the postoffice belonging to the local bank and talk ing all the mail matter he found. re- | tired to a blacksmith shop on First avenue, where he went through all of the letters in detail. Remittance letters from various valley banks and 1 n, thn nnanQd and
 gone through, checks totaling more | than $100~ being still unaccounted
 for
 Officers knew where to look fol | their criminal when tl1is deed was committed and while the lad readily | owned up to it, he was just as much unconcerned about 1t. Being under 12 years of age, the courts are un- able to administer punishment an6 the boy returned to kis mother with | a severe reprimand and promise o1 more serious punishment if he com 1 mits another offense.
 Fire Destroys Sims Home
 Fire which is thought to have orig | mated from defective flue in the | roof, completely destroyed the W. | H. Sims home on south Williams l street in the Stewart addition Mon
 day morning shortly after 10 o'clock l Mrs. Sims was preparing dinner or
 the cook stove in the house and frs learned of the fire when neighbor.
 nearby sounded the alarm, the blaz'
 originating in the attic. The fire de
 partment made a ready reSuonse, bau
 the blaze had gained too much head
 way in the frame structure for tn,
 use of chemicals and being outsid'
 the city limits no fire hydrant wa
 available. A part of the furniture o
 the home was saved, but everything
 else was burned to the ground witt
 the house. Fifteen hundred dolhr
 insurance was carried on the house.
 Mesa to Honor Scout Leader Tuesha,
 Charles N. Miller, regional soou
 executive of Los Angeles. will be
 guest on Tuesday of the local of
 ficials of the Boy Scouts and al
 interesting program has been ar
 ranged for the occasion. MT. Miller
 who spent Monday in Phoenix, vii arrive here Tuesday morning an, will be the guest of honor at 2 luncheon to be served In the Opffe ,, Cup cafe at 1 o'clock. More thal 50 men representing various bushes i, interests, churches and civic bodie have been invited to attend tn luncheon. MT. Miller IS expected t speak and the feasibility of organiz : ing local council for the Boy Scout will be discussed At 3 o'clock . scout masters schooi will be held i . the Baptist church for Boy Scouti V their parents and others who are in l terested in the movement.
 l Postpone Picnic
 l. The Baptist Missionary societ n which had arranged for a picnic be held this Thursday has postpone the event in favor of the program fo 2 Chautauqua week. The picnic will h i, held one week hence, on May 5. r Death of Naoma Pearce
 Miss Naoma Pearce, 20 years
 age, daughter of MT. and Mrs. R. I n Pearce of Lehi, died last Friday aft O ernoon following a short illness. I'll e young lady was a stenographer e Phoenix and was taken sick thel :. several weeks ago and the paren e upon realizing that her condition we : serious, removed her to their hon Il in Lehi about a week before he 2 death. Funeral services were held c y Saturday afternoon at o'clock frol 0 the school house in Lehi, a larl y number of friends from this distri = and from Phoenix attending the serI
 ice.
 Retire from Hotel Management
 MT. and Mrs. Pete Mehas who ha1 '. managed the Mesa hotel since u Y, first of the year, have given up the - work there and have moved to 1: South Shrine street A J. Peloni il owner of the hotel, will conduct u Ie management of it in the future. n Tuesdays chautanqua s There will be morning. afternoC 's and evening programs at the Chai g tauqua on Tuesday. Hunt Cook " = conduct Better Home Conferenc
 in the afternoon and a lecture
 Art in the Home" will be given l ie MT. Cook in the afternoon. A pre- ie ude by the Orpheus Four and | m Junior Chautauqua is also on t
 afternoon program. In the evenil
 the Orpheus Four will render a CO ,d cert. Id South Side Theaters Today " Majestic, Mesa - Lew Cody In 70 c. casionally Yours" Pathe News ly Gilbert Her Midnight R ne nance " starring Anita Stewart. Cor se edy. Uncle Toms Caboose." Mask l. Rider"
 CT Tempe - Taylor Holmes in Not ne ing But Lies" Burton Holmes Ira e1ogue. Ruth of the Rockies" sta e ring Ruth Roland.
 1rS Chandler = Harry Carey in
 Only Him." Bray photograph FOR RENT = NheIy furnish
 four room house; piano. garage, lc
 of shade. Call at PA East