Show BOY BURGLARS lu in justice court on may 16 the charge of burg burglary Jary against wm win paddock was investigated with a view of ascertaining whether or not he should be bound over to the grandeury gran grand jury djury the defendant was represented by A attorney F B stevens and wanted to waive examination but the prosecution desired to hear the testimony of the witnesses the defendant entered a plea of riot not guilty he was accused of having entered Clas beys store and taking tabing guns guna pistols etc henry C fisher fourteen years of age was waa called and testified I 1 am acquainted with defendant paddock we were at the opera house two and a half or three weeks ago met paddock there about 8 or in in the evening we tried to look in the opera house windows we had a conversation about Clas beys he andl and I 1 went to the tribune office with wallace miles went to Clas beys about 11 or 1130 went to the rear end of the store paddock cut the putty away with a knife and took out the glass we both went in and got two guns five pistols and two boxes of knives paddock got the two guns out of the window gewere there about 15 minutes the night watchman came and red tried the windows we carried the two guns up to paddocks and put them under the bed in the tent next day we put them in a sack a nd buried them paddock traded two of the pistols off to shep u up ll 11 in 1 the gambling house miles is f fifteen efte e n or sixteen years old I 1 got two pistols at Clas beys Q and paddock got three we brought two from the place where we hid them and sold one of them to wash and one to george alx lx we traded both to wash but georgell george got one ane of them we traded them for 2 each in chips and played poker I 1 got ono one of paddocks pistols and gave it to rooney booney he sold it to a second hand store for 2 and a shirt we let shep have two he be said he would pay us but he done so part of the time the guns were hid at cunninghams Cunning hams in the barn we went out shooting with them sometimes on oil cross examination the witness said I 1 dont remember the date when this occurred 7 paddock first proposed going to clasbey Clas beys as I 1 did not want to go paddock asked miles to go but he I 1 went in first paddock was in the window when the watchman came around upon this evidence padd paddock oc k w was as held to await the action of the grand jury bail being fixed at on another charge that of attempting to burglarize the deseret museum wm win paddock wm win rooney booney ana henry fisher were held beld for the grand jurys action the bonds being placed at next day fisher was up on the charge of burglary at Clasby Clas beys ls he was also held for the grand judythe ju rythe bail being As neither party could obtain sureties in the amounts named they were committed to jail there are still other charges against them the boys have already been connected with most of the burglaries that have recently occurred when mr jaeschke the boot black in the wasatch building was visited the thieves got away with several brushes and left a screwdriver screw driver which had bad been stolen from george Dun dunfords fords store when it was broken into a few nights previous the brushes were found by the police at the paddock residence at the museum the window was broken with a piece of iron iroil but the boys were scared off since their incarceration two of them have confessed to the burglaries mentioned and also to breaking into the D B R G coal office and H R pem brokes store paddock at the examination on may 16 entered a plea of not guilty to the burglary but to the of ficera he admitted baa having engaged in it arid also in the attempt on the museum the day after the house of mr rowe bowe was robbed he was heard to say to one of his companions there are lots lota of tramps in town now and the police wont think its ite me when the matter was suggested to him after his arrest he began to talk but stopped and said 1 I guess defa u I 1 wont tell where rowes watch watch is he also added that if he said too much he would be sent to the reform school four of the five pistols taken from Clas beys have been recovered as have also all but four knives out of two boxes that were taken and the two guns one of the latter being found in paddocks house when the wasatch bootblacks brushes were found there A Q G paddock admitted that his boy brought them and said that he got them from abnot another her boy who had been sent to jail fisher and rooney booney in confessing their connection with the various vadous thefts stated that they ha had d all the plans laid for a big scheme the participants were to be themselves and paddock the scheme was no ne less an undertaking than the robbery be 0 of f the deseret bank they hadd had rills drills powder cotton etc and intended tobe fully armed when they made this e effort so that if they were detected by the officers or watchmen they would be able to kill if necessary to make good their escape this plan how ever which included even murder within its possibilities was waa broken into by the arrests rooney booney and fisher anticipate a term in the reform school the former says he care much where he la is but would a little rather have his liberty he has learn lear ced need considerable from professional cracksmen cracksman cracks men in his experience in prison and he thinks that in a term in the penitentiary he might learn a little more so as to be able to elude the officers or to escape from jail asa As a guess at what his punishment will be fisher has chalked on the wall of his cell fisher kid three years in the reform school his mother who has made great efforts in the endeavor to get him to lead an honest life says she hopes he will get about four years apart from evil companions and she thinks that thai will ace accomplish what she has been unable to do |