Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-18 | Page 20 | Watch Brought Bad Luck

WATCH BROUGHT BAD LUCK Throe Persons Who Carried the Timepiece Time-piece Met Violent Deaths A silver watch with an Illfated history his-tory was offered in evidence lately before be-fore Justice Sauhcr at tJio Northwester Northwest-er police station where Ernest Stof frengon 17 years old and Charles Foster Fos-ter 1C earl old were charged with the larceny of the watch which Is the property prop-erty of James Tracy a contractor 1520 North Strieker street The watch hrs been In the Tracy family fam-ily for l twentyeight years and was brought by James Tracy Sr who was a contractor and stone mason About ten years ago as the elder Tracy was at work on 0 bridge across the Baltimore Balti-more Potomac railroad near Culver ton ho was killed The Itch was In his vest pocket at the time I then went to James Tracy Jr who loaned Itt his brother Gllson C Tracy a brakeman on the Northern Central railway About foul yea is ago Gllson C Tracy was killed on the railroad The watch was then loaned by James Tracy Jr to another an-other brother Thomas Tracy I tinner who was killed three years ago by falling fall-Ing from I roof on Courlland street Lust August while Mr 1 Tracfy superIntended super-Intended the razing of the old customhouse custom-house the watch was stolen out of his vest pocket The theft was reported to the police but no Irace of the llmo piece could be found Recently the police po-lice of the northwestern district were Jco colored Informed that Marshall Green a youth 1111 Little Wilson street had a watch answering the description of Mr racE properly Sergt Foter saw Green and recovered the watch Greon said that Stoffrengon and FOH taT t told him the walch was found concealed con-cealed In C lumber pie and that he could have It The two > boys were thereupon tirrcHlod An Mr Tracy was In Philadelphia Phila-delphia thc accused Ycie released on bail BaiUmoro Bun J