Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-17 | Page 16 | Possible Lynching Averted by Police

POSSIBLE LYNCKING AVERTBBY POLICE Woods's Alleged Eiificenient oi' Litlle Beck Girl From Home Infuriates Citizens. MAN IS CAPTURED 0NMr AFTER A FURIOUS CHASE At Police Sfufion Denies (he Charges and Says He Ran He-cause He-cause of Woman's Screams. Churged with enticing the six-year-old daughter of Mrs. .J. Heck from her home at S21 Sixth East street, with a sinister purpose hi view, Anthony Woods, a cement ce-ment contractor, -! yeai-s old, was arrested ar-rested by Patrolman Anthony Olson, Patrol Driver George Moore and Motorcycle Motor-cycle Oftlcer W. W. Griflhf, Wednesday afternoon at V2:'.U) o'clock, and saved from a possible lynching at the hands of infuriated citizens on P street, between Third and Fourth avenues. According to tho reports received by tho police. Woods went to the home of the child Wednesday, about noon, and. after giving her a bag of candy, enticed her to accompany hint to the eastern part of the city before tho child was missed by the anxious mother. Mrs. .1. Klngdon, an aunt of the child, saw tho two passing her house at Seventh linst and Fourth Soulh streets, on their way eastward, and ran after the man. Child's Aunt to the Rescue. Mrs. Klngdon Immediately attacked Woods, who started to ran. The chase of Woods was taken up by W. 11. Xesblt of 37:5 High Ih avenue, who tool; .Mrs. Klngdon Into his buggy and drove after the tleelng man. By leaping fences and cutting across the country. Woods was distancing his pursuers, when J. H. Bur-bldge Bur-bldge of C9;; Hast Fourth South street and D. Mowson, who lives on Fourth South and Third East streets, and a number num-ber of others from tho Immediate neighborhood, neigh-borhood, started after him. The alarm had been sent" lo the police station along the way of the chase, and when Woods ncared P street, between Third and Fourth avenues, the police, patrol and Patrolman Olson arrived In time to save Woods from being taken from Motorcycle Ofllcer Griffin, who had overtaken him. by the maddened cowd. Threats of lynching were heard on all sides, but the man was removed to the city jail without further difficulty. Denies Charges. Woods, at the station, denied the charges and said that he had llrst become be-come acquainted with the child when he had been doing cement work in the vicinity vicin-ity of her home. TTc denied buying the child the candy, and said that the youngster young-ster had followed him as he was passing her home. Asked why .be ran. he stated that the attack of Mrs. Klngdon and her screams would make any man run. Woods Ik being held at the city jail pending an Investigation.