Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-12 | Page 28 | Chase Drunken Father and Child over Hills

'CHASE OH FATHER- f Aid CHILMVER HILLS i: bgden Officer and Woman In- h ! ...dulge in Exciting Pursuit j ? of a Father. I'l - " a' : .Spqplal to Tlic Tribune. J; i . OGDEN, July 11. A good film for a J. I .' .moving picture theater could have been ;j ' Eecurcd Friday- night in the foothills !, near the city. but for the ;! v. darkness. All of the actors neces-I neces-I "sary were present to give tho picture a i! ' iruo-to-life representation, but the ef- 1' feet may have been spoiled, as the .,t . chase, for chase ii -was, ended iruit- "it ' ' ' lessly. I '.- j Levi SouthTvick, a contractor, who.fre- I i 'qucntlv looks on tho wine when it is ; red, returned to his homo on Tlnrty- j 'first street, Friday night, in an intoxi- I , -cated condition. Seeing his two-year- j ; old baby sleeping peacefully, thtf father, :Ti-ithout any explanation for his action I ; to the other members of tho family, sud- : .denly snatched it from its little bed ;'J ' and 'made, for the door. 3. Tlis wife tried frantically to stop him, j ' but out of the door and through the ,: , . vard he ran. She telephoned to the po- i' lice station and an officer with Shcruf " AVilson. was soon in hot pursuit, with ; f the frantic woman and the older chil- ! " dren in the lead. Up hill and down dale " the chase led to tho foothills nearby. ill but no trace of tho drunken man and ! .1 his precious burden could bo found. I -Imagining direful things had happened 1 i S to her child, the woman at first refused ! j to be comforted, but the officers at last j 'succeeded in persuading her to return - to her home. i ( j At a late hour the husband and fa- ' ' i I ther returned to the home with the lit- ,5 f f tie one closelv nestled to his bosom, J jione the worsefor tho race through the l M sagebrush. The mother was faithfully t ,! I keeping vigil when the two returned. $ ? r'-She declared Saturday that her hus- . j band.'s actions were for the purpose of fS j I causing her worry.