Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-02-11 | Page 28 | Stranger Demands Money of Woman

STRANGER DEMANDS if YJI- WHIM Woman Faints, Man Flees, but Is Later Placed in Custody. Looking up from her sewing at 7:30 o'clock, last night, M.rs. G. Sullivan, 3 67 T) street, saw confronting her a well-dressed well-dressed stranger who advanced to her side and demanded to be given $5 immediately. im-mediately. Mrs. Sullivan screamed and fainted. The stranger lied through the door and ran into George May cook near tho gate. Maycock, who lives next door, gavo chase aud another neighbor, witnossiug the pursuit, wiled the police. Sergeant lim'il Johuson responded in tho patrol and, overtook the fugitive after a brisk run up 1) street. At tho police station tho fellow gave his namo as .T. McCoy and said he was a glass-blower by trade. lie insisted that he had only asked Mrs. Sullivan for something to cat and the price of a bed. Later reports reached the police station sta-tion to t.hc effect I hat the same man had entered several other houses, in-eluding in-eluding that of his pursuer, Mr. May-cock, May-cock, and had frightened the women occupants into hysterics. 'So frightened was Mrs. Sullivan that she hud to bo put to bed under tho earn of a physician..