Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-16 | Page 16 | Woman Feeds Youth She Discovers Robbing Home; Plans to Defend Him

Woman Feeds Youth She Discovers Robbing l Home Plans to Defend Him I NEW YORK Jan 16 Associated Pr Press Press After s After feeding a hungry youth she caught in the act of robbing robbing robbing rob rob- bing her apartment Mrs L Lyndall M. M Olmsted a writer said today she would defend him in n court Mrs Olmsted upon returning to he her apartment yesterday after alter a twenty minute absence said she found lound the tho youth placing three suits belonging to her hll husband Henry Hemy Marshall Olmsted J a broker In a sut sc Sho She said she recognized hInt ilm as Andrew Batchelor aged ased I 11 19 r who had l Mien been en discharged four months ago as an elevator operator In n tho apartment house hO ono one of a group roup In the tho fashionable Tudor City section along alonS' tho the East Fast river The youth ordered b her r to put up h her h hands at the same sarno time Line pointIng pointIng pointing point- point Ing at nt her what sho s o later h learned arn d was wa a fake fako pistol Noticing ho he was perspiring nJ sho she suggested and ob obtained obtained ob- ob a J. J glass o of water ater for tor him him- Ho lIo then told her ho had been jin- jin In- In able to find ind work that his his his' father an and mother were sick and that t he had riot not eaten caten In twenty four hours She Sho thereupon hereupon gave s tin him food and coffee and permitted him to leave eave Later sho she reported tho the occur occur- occur occurrence rence to tho the manager of oC the apartment apartment apart apart- ment l house ou e who caused Batchelor's Batchel- Batchel OI ors or's arrest Mrs Mr Olmsted Is a R. former treasurer of or the League o of American