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Show BURGLAR INVADES HE KEiOJ HOTEL Was Looting the Apartments of Miss Cosgriff When Surprised. MAKES DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE Is Finally Overpowered, Handed Over to Police and Lodged in Jail. A young man giving tho name of Ed Thompson, but whoso truo name is probably ilarry O'Noil, was caught in the act of going through tho apartments apart-ments of Miss (Tritta Cosgriff at tho Kenyon hotel at S:-io o'clock Sunday night and now occupios u coll at tho citv prison. W. K. Fife, the well known commercial commer-cial man, who is a brother-in-lnw of Miss Cosgriff, had iuat roturnod with hor from an automouilo rido. Ho pre-coded pre-coded tho lady down tho corridor toward her aparlmonts and was surprised sur-prised to And tho olectric lights burning burn-ing brightly. Thoy had been left turned on. Entering the first apartment of thp suito. Mr. Fife saw a man rummaging about tho dresser of an adjoining room. He called out to him ''What aro you doing there?" For reply the fellow turnod and informed in-formed File that if he uttered a word or atteniptod to stop him ho would kill him. Ho rushed past Fife into tho hallway. The latter followed him. and for his braverv, rocoived a blow on the chest which knocked him flat on tho floor. Fife was up in an instant and after the burglar, at. tho samo timo calling to Miss Cosgriff to follow another suspicious sus-picious looking character ho had seen hurrying down tho hall and who, he was certain, was a parlnor of tho man he had found in the room. Tho lady followed instructions with splendid courage, but tho man wns too clever for her and disappeared down' the stairs and lost himself in the crowd. Plfo Calls for Help. Meantimo Fife had caught up with his man, laid violent hold upon his coat tails and sot up a call tor help that, according to his own admission, would have put a megaphone to shame. Alter a brief strugglo tho thief broke away and bolted down the stairs, Fife after him. At the turn into the office the burglar turned and, pointing to File, yelled to the crowd: "There's tho thiet. Arrest him!" This ruse came very near winning out, for J. H. Turner, a mining man, and sevoral others throw themselves upon the merchant mer-chant and he needed all his breath to tell them thoy woro mistaken, and who the real thief was. Then thoy rolcased him and surrounding tho fugitive closed in on him and mado him nris-oner. nris-oner. y The police were notified and Officers liiplC3', Johnston and Clough were soon on hand and took the fellow into custody. cus-tody. Stolen Goods on Thief. On tho way to tho station the" prisoner pris-oner was seen to reach his hand out under the curtaiu of the patrol wagon and draw it quickly back atrain. T.itYlr. was thought ol this circumstance at the time, but after the prisoner had been locked up Officer Ripley returned on a still hunt over the course traversed by the wagon and, in front of the Wilson hotel, at tho point whore Thompson had thrust his hand outside, he picked up a handsome pearl stick pinpart of tho recent hotel plunder. When searched at the .jail the prisoner's pris-oner's pockets yielded a valuable cluster clus-ter diamond broach, a solitaire diamond broach, a solid gold bracelet and a crucifix 01 fine quality and workmanship. workman-ship. Ho -was also relieved of thrco skeleton koys such as aro found in the kits of all well-equipped housebreakers and room thieves. About six weeks ago Miss Cosgriff 's apartments, the sanio she now occupies were entered in a similar manner during dur-ing her absence. On that occasion she was relieved of about $300 worth of jewelry. The management of tho hotel ho-tel kept the matter quiet and every effort was mado to locate the lost jewelry jew-elry and catch tho thief. 2sb sign of either has yot been found. |