Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-09 | Page 4 | Young Man Steals Food for His Wife

yDUFilG MAN STEALS f FOOD FDR HIS WIFE i Bereaved Couple Now Held Si in Jail on Burglary Charge. I VvWz Millar v.-ia the lather of a lift!' fellow who cooed ami RurKlwJ for sh;cr joy wlu-n Vrilz cann; from his work on a ' 1 1 fin i;;m;' aiM liKf,) U,e fellow in iiiM arms. Hilda llnher kept their ,V ' ' room in a chr;i hoti-1 spot lennly clean and Hi Come; hi atiit in.sl lerrit'ie odd a !o keep i ho life .'(park hum ins In the breast of their ,fl HiiM. .1 t Tol;t - a li 1 1 If wood rti cross in 1 1m poiifts firld mark tin- baby's tRe. jil'fiu llnlr and hh wife are in jail, k l a' ifi " Xfri wil h hiirudarv. t . h Fritz luher is III years old. Hilda. bin s' 1 F. ife, i a year younger. They stood be- ' l-fore t hn captain In the police Ktation last . i nijjht and fold of their lif for the tat t month. .The man told t h story. His wif y i pressed hrr face against his shoulder and r ijfohbed softly. He .said: , 1 f want to i;o lo Jail to atone to the ,( f state for niv crime, but but won't ' you 1ft nift make n place for my Hilda . first? T l"st inv job with the section 1,1 r cang-and J couldn't find another. Our l" baby our little Frederick wan sick, w i fi had a little money, That went for ii inpdk'ine for htm, but he Is gone. r ; ' When I could not find work and "t . Hilda was hunsrry I stole. On Satur-, Satur-, j- ' da- night T went to a house at ;20 ' lidst South Temple street. T didn't "I know that Judc Morse lived there, ii' f No one was at home. I broke in & rlie back door and stole an overcoat 10 to keep Hilda warm and a watch and t ; ' some little trinkets. Then T sold the -t ' tliiiiKs for fond. T thought that 1 , 1 would ih ke the ring back to the nwiior a nd say that I had found i t. P Tt never works to Me. lie knew that f , ' I had stolen it. and, being- a law-it. law-it. ' abirtins: citizen, he had me arrestee!. ,s . Before that I would take Hilda to i .r, ., u a teh and then I would so to the i hack porch tcehox of a house and ? ( steal a bottle of milk or a dish of '.v meat, Now 1 am ready to go to jail. rl The mnn stopped and drew himself up 11 erect. He glanced keenlv at the officer ' at the desk and waited until a patrolman nc i 'took him to the desk sergeant to have !his name entered on the roll of dishonor. The woman walked with her husband . 'cut of the long corridor to the jail. The rrt .matron led her up the iron steps to the A - 'woman's ward and the jailer clanked the -?t '! Nieel loor shut behind the husband. t 'Neither spoke. It was the same when - 'ihev carried the baby to the potter's field. j2 ' Their grief wns the. sorrow of silence. 1 Detective Huntsman heard the man's ., '.slot v. He saw the woman's tears. The ' .patrolmen standing around the office saw him ahp out into the night. In a little 'while he returned and walked back to . ,: 'ino jail with a little bundle under his: J , . mm. The Jailer took a package of sand- ijlt 'wiches lo the matron and the matron ' took a bundle of sandwiches to a little woman in the upper teir who cried for ! her babv and asked for Fritz Hubcr.