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Show BURGLAR AND FORCER- William Thompson Called Into Court Tint 8 Forenoon. This morning William Thompson, burglar, forger and a few other things, if the police belief goes, was called into court for arraignment, Thompson laughed as the assistant county attorney attor-ney read the charge which enumerated a do.en or more articles as having bocn stolen from Mrs. Major Erb at the Walker house, and told Mr. Kaston he might as well disponse with reading as he would plead not guilty. When asked if ho had means to employ em-ploy an attorney Thompson said he hardly thought it necessary. But after a while ho asked for permission to communicate com-municate with some of his friends. He declined to write with pen and ink in tho court room but went into the reception recep-tion room nnd there wrote with pencil a request to a friend named Harris to call around and see him. Harris was addressed as being at the Arcado gambling gam-bling rooms. Chief Young took the note wlicu Thompson had returned to jail and compared it with the cheek found on the person of the suspect when arrested. In nearly every detail the chiograpliy was found lo correspond. But aside from this tho chief has some specimens of Thompson's writing which ho found in his room in the Kntorptiso house and they, too, aro of tho same hand as tho work done on tho A. L. Williams check. Before leaving the court room Thompson Thomp-son asked the Judge to order the polico to give him back his shoes. "These that they have given mo in place of my own tit me badly and have nails in them." he declared. Chief Voting informed the court that the tit I o of the shoes was in dispute, however, and Thompson was obliged to return to the jail wearing the others. It, appears that the shoes worn bv tho prisoner when arrested have 'been claimed by a man named Sn viler,- a guest at the Walker house ou the night of the burglary, and a relative of Mavor Scott. Another pair t.f shoes, which hod bee. i left by the thief at Mrs. Erb's room, where given to Thompson at' tho jail, and those aro the ones ho is wearing. wear-ing. it may be stated that the credit for Thompson's arrest lies with officer George Albright. |