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Show 11 ! County Attorney Refuses Com-; Com-; plaint for. Youth Caught With Stolen Property, j . j NUMEROUS ESCAPES FROM PUNISHMENT ARE NOTED 1 Authorities Apparently Blind to Depredations of Young Lund ' ( and Companions. I 'I , Another lesson was received by H. A. ij liuntl. 10 years of ago and residing nt ( 10GC Emerson avenue, In what might npt- , ly be termed his courso of Instruction for "The- Making of a Criminal," when ' County Attorney Job P. Lyon refused to Issue a complaint on Wednesday, July 27, charging- the young man with grand larceny. Lund had stolen a horao and ' buggy from Liberty park on Tuesday, July 2C, and was arrested while In the net' of driving away with It by Patrolman Patrol-man Cleveland. He was taken to the police station and charged with grand larceny. Joe Jermy, the owner of the horse . and buggy, refused to prosecute tho case, but Patrolmnn Clovelarfd offered of-fered to sign the complaint. Jermy had been seen "bv the father of Lund and had agreed not to prosecuto, after which both had visited the oflloc of the county attorney, who then refused to issue thu complaint. Their Previous Bocords. The Lund boys first came to the notice no-tice of the police authorities when, with two other boys, they were arrested for breaking into the garage of Frank Do-ran Do-ran of 1512 South Sixth East street, stealing an automobile and abandoning the machine In a damaged condition at Farmington. They wore arrested and taken lo the police station, but the owner own-er of the machine refused to prosecute them on account of their ago. They were lectured by the authorities and released. Perry Lund and L. E. Lund were mlxod up in the theft of the machine, according accord-ing to the police. That offense was committed com-mitted shorlly before October 25. 1S0P, at which date the boys were arrested. K. G. McNclcc. dean of the Wcstmln-! Wcstmln-! Kler college, reported to the police on i April f last, that the college buildings had been entered by vandals and prop-' prop-' erly valued at ?1S00 had been destroyed, i Dean McNclco said that much of the I ' properly consisted of raro books, pho-tographic pho-tographic plains and curloa, and that It could not be replaced. Chief of Police Harlow detailed Chief of Detectives George Sheets, Lieutenant Shannon and Detective Chase to work on the case, and when tho buildings were searched a business card, bearing the names of the Lund hoys, their addresses i and their business as expert shinslers, ! was found. Bj Taken by Night Watchman. Hi Then came to light one of those nirl- i ous incidents which may be found hap-pcnlng hap-pcnlng to men who devote their lives to tho search and apprehension of crlml- Hl nals. Numerous reports had been reach- Hr Ing the department that various citizens had been held up, and whllo searching Hj for the holdups, Edward Mitchell, a night watchman employed by tho property B owners on Brlgham street, arrested a B vouih who answered the descriptions. When Night Watchman Mitchell took the youth to the police station and searched him, he gave the name of JI. A. Lund, and had In Ills pocket a nlckel-plated, nlckel-plated, hammerlcss Smith ft Wesson re volvcr. of -3S caliber, a pair of wire pll- B ers, a small nickel-plated monkey B wrench, some money, and a large, blue, fl polka-dot handkerchief, the diagonal B corners of which had boon knottod. BpB Mitchell had been watching the youth BVfl for perhaps an hour before he arrested BVb him and had .seen him go to the door of BVfl the Hrigham street pharmacy and try it ftVfl repeatedly. The store was closed at the ftVa time. The youth acted as though he BVfl were waltjng for someone to join him, BVflj but Ills actions, and the fact that he an- ftVM swered the descriptions of the holdup, BVfl caused the watchman to take him to the H After being searched, and before he BVfl was led away to a cell. Lieutenant Shan- BVfl non asked thu youth for his name. The BVB youth took a card from his pocket and, BVfl ' tossing it to the lieutenant, .said that It BVfl bore his name and business. It was then BVfl " that Lieutenant Shannon saw that he BVfl was looking at the same sort of a busl- H 1 noHs card that hud been found in thu EVfl college buildings. Confessions to Folico. When Chief of Detectives Sheets ar- BVB 'I rived at the station, thu boy was brought BVfl ; before him and questioned as to why he ftVft1 had destroyed the property at the col- H i lege. He said that he and his cousin, BVfl P, C. Lund, had dedroyed the properly, BVfl but he questioned thu amount when BVB Chief Sheets told him that the property BVB destroyed would amount to $1300. The BBVfl confession of the Lund boy was made BVaj before Chief Sheets and Jailer Wilkcnson. BVfl Complaints charging the boys with the BVfll , destruction of property wore Issued and BVfl their trials set for May 12 in Judge BVfl i Bowman's court. Tho jury that heard fl the case was composed of F. M. Shurt-llff, Shurt-llff, Charles W. Olson, W. J. Glado and BVfl B. L. Ribclin. BVfl Charles O'Brien, tho janitor of tho col- BVfl lego, testified to having made his rounds BVB of the buildings on Monday ,nght, April BVB -t. and to have found everything In good BVB condition. The following morning, he BVS said, ho had entered tho building and bad H discovered that vandals had broken into BVfl the buildings and that property, conslst- BVH ing of valuable and rare books, pamph- H lets, photographic plates and various curios, had been destroyed. BVfl Earl L. Wilson of 15155 South Eleventh H East street tcstillcd to having gone to H the college buildings with O'Brien, and H ; to have seen the business cards of the H Lund boys on the floor. Asked what lie H had done with the cards, Wilson said BVfl that ho luid loft them where he had 1 found them. BVH , Chief of Detectives Sheets testified H that tho confession had been made, after BVfl j which both of the Lund boys look the BVB J istand in their own behalf and testified I that they had not made tho confession. H Prosecution Is Weak. H During the progress of tho trial, the 1 jurors did not socm interested In the 1 outcome, nor did the assistant county l attorney, who did not make any great BVfl endeavor to .prove the acts of vandalism, j , Regardless of tho fact that the boys had BVS I been mixed up in other troubles, ten 1 j witnesses testified to tho good characters BVfl I of the boys prior to their arrest for tho H j destruction of the property at tho college. BVS I The jury remained out an hour and then BVS i returned a verdict of not guilty, BVS When Joe Jermy reported the theft of l i 4 his horse and buggy from Llbertv park 1 on Monday night, July 25, he en hi that 1 j he would furnish another horse and H , buggy if the department would furnish 1 him with a man to help in the search BVS ' for the stolen horse and buggy. LIcu- BVS tenant Hempel detailed Patrolman Clcvc- BVS land to go with Jenny. In reporting the H matter of the theft, Jermy said that he BVH had been told 1)3' the boatman at the 1 park that the Lund boys were lying on J the graH and were watching him aftor 1 he had been told to tie his horse to the H i fi.'uce in the rear of tho old mill. H Patrolman Cleveland drove to the vl- 1 I clnlty of Hid rcsldcuc: of II. A. Lund 1 S and boforc long he aw the boy driving 1 ) along the street in tln stolen outfit. Pa- 1 trolman Clcvoland asked hlrn where he BVS V got the rig. and Lund said tint a man 1 l nt Murray had loaned It to him lo drive H ' home Hh lie told Hie patrolman that he had been to a dance af Murray. He was then confronted with the evidence of his theft of the rig from tho park and taken to tho station. Patrolman Cleveland aroso early the following day and went to tho pollco station for tho purpose of seeing Men. tenant Ilempcl and to determine as to whether a complaint should bo filed against Lund. Lieutenant Hempel staled that the county attorney had said that Inasmuch as Jermy refused to prosecute the Lund boy, no complaint would be Issued Is-sued against him, and then Lieutenant Tlcinpcl ordered the relcaso of tho boy. 'P |