Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-22 | Page 12 | Laborer Attempts to Break into Jail

fLABORER ATTEMPTS ! 10 BREAK INTO JI i ! Sets Fire to House and Reports Re-ports on Himself; Sanity Is Questioned. .Special q yn Tribune. J' ; I d;.V, Nor. l, moudfnt been use be coud not rind work and afraid lo faco Hie wiiitfi- vvilhont a Make. VY. Mendu-ball, Mendu-ball, a bruit -1 1 vea rs of ar, a laburcr, made .1. .sm-ces.sful etT.rt io brenk lulu jail this aficrnoou when he tired ilio ok- Jcn lufnuin" noiiKf, I Twmi I y- !l ft ii Mireet. nd save himself up lo the police. .1 end en ha II w;ih .so anxious lo f t into Ii' il that he reported bin crime at police headquarters bi'orc the (ire had been discovered. dis-covered. The daniaee restdtins from the tiro was :lif;hl. "I have just commit ted arwon," paid the man when approached by Horftoant O. N. .Toblnian about 2 o'clock, "and f want to be locked up. am down and out. You can send me to the peni i cut ia i v or anv-wIitp anv-wIitp clue. I (tou t rare what von do wiib me." ( 'onsidcrins ir etransm thai be had nor heard of the lire in the business district. Hie of fleer telephoned o ( 'lyde 1- id ton, .proprietor of a. drus store near the rooming room-ing bouse, asklns him to investigate. Kul-tnri Kul-tnri I'vinrned to the telephone n. few mo-inont.s mo-inont.s later and conrirmeil .Mrndenba lis report. The firemen found that the man had poured the contents of a kerosene la inp on a mall reus in a rea r annex of the rooming house and fired the oil. Outside Out-side of destroying a Tew hundred lives hi' the mattress, the firemen said there was ; no damage. Mendenha!! is locked in the oltv jail I and il may be found advisable to have him examined as t his sanity.