Arizona republican., 1922-03-27
CIOse-Ups Of
Real Life in
America

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Chickens Roost At Home
Find Scientific Burglar
x. x. X. Deny kidnap Charge
Millionaire Ends sIum Life
WILSON, N. G.. March 26.--Mayor
Killette, called upon in city
courts here to enact the role OF Sol
omon in a case involving ownership
OF a large dominicker rooster. settled
the question and at the same time
proved the adage that chickens come
home to roost.p
Liler Thomas, negro, swore out a
warrant charging Annie Graham also
negro, with stealing the rooster.
The mayor, recalling that chickens
were reputed to come home TO roost,
decreed that at sundown the DOM
inicker be placed midway between the
two homes. The rooster. thus given
his choice, ended the dispute by se-
lecting Lilers chicken house in which
to roost.
CHICAGO, March -Burglaries
OF scores OF homes, the loot from
which totalled more than 100000
were attributed by the police today
TO Edward Eddie Collins, known as
the scientific burglar from whom
they said they had obtained a de-
tailed confession.
Collins, according to the police, al
ways made 1t a rule to work slone,'
never to bother with what he called
small stuff" and to specialize in a.
profitable territory which he knew
thoroughly.
Most OF his alleged robberies were
committed during the absence Of own
erg from their homes.
After he had picked up everything
worth while in a house or apartment
IL was said. he would use the tele-
phone to call a taxlcab in which to
make his escape. The boldness of
his operations drove police and de-
tcctives to desperation.
All of his ilI-gotten gains, he was
quoted as saying, had been spent on
drugs and it was to the craving for
these that he attributed his downfall.
CAN BERNARDINO, Calf, March
26--Night riders who last night
kidnapped Jesse Mansfield. q years
old, and held him captive for three
hours did not speak to him or so far
as he knew, to each other In that
time. he told officers today. He
could give no clew. he said, as to the
motive Of the kidnapping.
Mansfield declared he interpreted
the actions of the men to indicate
they had taken the wrong man.
Mansfield was taken from a resi-
dsnce where he was visiting Miss
Helen Molnar and spirited away in
an automobile by eight or more men
2arbed in white robes and black
masks.
Interest Of the investigators cen
tered in a letter which Mansfield de-
clared was taken from him and later
returned. The letter was signed
OLIVIA Townsend. 1904 South Twelfth
street st. Joseph. No." and urged
Mansfield to send for her to marry
her.
Miss MoInar said she and Mans
field would be married in two weeks
Officers Of the Ku Klux Klan is-
sued a statement denying that their
organization had anything to do with
the attack.
NEW YORK, March 2e.The sew
: enth study or the down and OUT
which Gordon Duffield, 19-year- old
heir to $1,000, 900 has been making in
Bowery lodging houses and east side
cranrlies for the last five months,
while the heart OF his mother, Mrs.
Graham Duffield ached with anxiety,
as she hunted everywhere for him,
was completed today when mother
and son Were happily reunited.
Mrs Duffield said she was so con-
vinced that this would be her boy >
last adventure Of that character. that
she would leave for Chicago tomor-
row afternoon and that Gordon,
either Monday or Tuesday, would go
back to. the school at Plainfield, N.
D.. from which he disappeared.
At present she said, he was in care
of friends and chat DR.. William
Burke principal OF the school, would
look after him.
He hated to give up the mother
said tonight in tones bertaying her
evident pride in the youths cscapade.
HE looked unusually well and much
better than ] thought he would. lie
has been in New York all the time
but had no thrilling experiences. He
worked at odd Jobs along the east
side from Brooklyn bridge to the
Bronx
Its over" she said with great re-
lief.
The hunt for the youth in Bowery
haunts became so vigorous after his
mothers arrival in New York last
week that the young man was com
PEELED to take extraordinary precau-
tions against discovery. he related
Police detectives got so close on his
trail that he was forced to spend the
last three nights in elevated railroad
trains to escape capture, he told his
mother
The search auickened wednesday,
night after Gordon telephone his
mother at her hotel that he was wei
but not presentable.
He promised to come to her Whef
she had arranged to obviate this EN-.
harrassment, but in vain she waited
Thev did not call lie called agair
last night. saying he would appear
Early today he greeted Mrs. DuffielS
III the hotel lobby.
II was surprised at his good an
nearance,o Mrs Duffield said. Hi
clothes were shabby of course, bu
his hair was neatly trimmed and h'
was clean.
"This is Cordon's seventh escapad
~ this kind she continued. "Si'
( fines before this he has run ava,
FROM home to see the world Thi
was his most successful trlIancy 0
ahc lot. however"
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