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Show ' TVo Young Men Are Nabbed in the House of Maurice M. Johnson. NEITHER KNEW THAT OTHER WAS IN HOUSE Had Been Hiding From Each Other When Officers Found Two daylight burglars worn captured nl fchc home of -Maurioo M. Johnson, export ex-port mining onginoor for tlio ftfcwhoiisc interests, i2l East. Second South street, shortly after 2 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, after-noon, by Lieutenant John Ilcmpel, Patrolman Pa-trolman C. J. CarJborg and Dotcclivo Frank Wheeling. Neither of tho burglars burg-lars knew that the ofher was in tho house. Tho men arrested gave their names as Charles Alyor, 121 years old; and Kd Anderson, 22 years old. jfiss Marguerite Kichmond, who lives across tho si root from tho Johnson residence, res-idence, noticed one of the burglars us mar cellar window, She teJcphonod. for the police. The officers answered tho call in Chief .Barlow's automobile. I'hc Johnson home was locked when the police arrived, the family being up town, and thoy were forced to crawl through a window to get into the house. Surglara Are Found. "While Detective Wheeling went through the rooms downstairs. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Uempcl searched the. collar, where he found one of the burglars. Patrolman Patrol-man Carlborg went upstairs and discovered dis-covered the other housebreaker in the bathroom. Both burglars were arrested arrest-ed at the point of a revolver. Apparently believing that they had plenty of liinc in which to operate, and got away before members of the Johnson John-son family returned, tho burglars had tied expensive wearing apparel into bundles. Costly jewelry and a quantity of silver also had been done up in neat packages. A pair of silver scissors and iwo razors ra-zors wore the only articles found on tho men when they wero searched at the police station. The peculiar feature of the attempted robbery is that neither of the burglars know that the other was in the house. Anderson said that he had gone to tho Johnson home to ask for something to eat. Receiving no response when ho. rang the door bell, ho went to tho rear of the residence and crawled into the cellar, ho says. . Hide From Each Other. According to his story he ran up-stairs up-stairs and into the bathroom when he thought ho heard some one downstairs. The noise he hoard appears to have been, made by Mycr, who says ho went to the house in quest of food also. Mycr laughed -yhon ho told the oinccrs that lie had hidden behind the furnaco in the cellar whon ho hcnTd Anderson go upstairs. Tho two burglars were hiding from each other when the polico nr rived. Each of the housebreakers declares de-clares that he had no intontiun of robbing rob-bing the residence when he cnterod it. but; the sight of the silver, fine clothing and jcwolrj- tempted them to steal, before they ransacked the house, however, how-ever, they both visited tho pantry, which was -well supplied with delicacies. delica-cies. thc3'.Siiy. Lieutenant John llempol remained at the residence until members of the fam-'ily fam-'ily returned. It later developed that tlie burglars had called at a number oir homes in the neighborhood in scai'ch of food, before visiting the Johnson residence,. |