Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-20 | Page 2 | Mugleston Muddled in Story of Holdup

, MUGLE3TQN MUDDLED II I II STORY Of HOLDUP if ft He Accuses Newsboys anil Later . They Are Released at His H ! Request. E lit Wandering aimlessly nlionl, IiiofTcetii- I Ijrt ally trying to stop the flow of blood from Ki 1 n wound In IiIk head with his hand. Ber- 1 nard Mugloston of 2-15 Proutor avenue K (' was picked up on Seventh West street ! !'( liolwecit Elphth and Ninth South streets E j hj hy Policemen Bclz and Johnson early R ! ijgi Wednesday morning and taken to tho F ) jlf omcrgoncy hospital In a semi-conscious R i Aflur lying at tho jail about flvo hours w I (if lio recovered and told a lurid story of r if v being held up to which tho police attach t, jit little importance Throe boys, he said, J) i: halted him near Seventh West and Ninth f' j Jit South streets, as ho was on his way 4 homo, and robbed him of $2 In money and li'i a gold watch and chain. When they or- . 1 jlj, dcred him to throw up his hands ho did I j l not obey, ho says, thinking thoy woro ft jjiiK Joking, and one of them struck him a Eg Els' vicious blow over the head that dazed ' frv him. Ills watch and money were gone Je jff when he camo to. jf ! Upon a description of the holdups that lll he furnished the police. Patrolman Knst t fjlfl arrested George Thompson, a newsboy. 'j Hilt -1 years old, on Commercial street lato mill; Wednesday afternoon. Aluglcston at first v UlJ positively Identified Thompson as one of Ljlllir the highwaymen but afterward said ho y wjj was not tho right man and he was re- lj Muglcston said all wero Newsboys and jjM( ho thought he hoard them say they wero Jf Ml, going to Provo after the holdup. Sheriff dill, Harman of Provo was notified and Kit If I "Wednesday afternoon took into custodv (Mi two boys answering tho descriptions of R II 1 1 tllc no'luPs given by Muglcston. but they Kj j Iji .ifterward were released at Mugleston'a