Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-28 | Page 5 | Catman Maniac Terrorizes City

CA CAIMAN CATMAN MANIAC I TERRORIZES CITY I Police Doubled Double in Watch for Elusive Assailant of Women Babies DANVILLE III 28 A W-A A July caiman eatman eat cat man maniac had this city in a grip of terror today I Double shifts shirts of policemen patrolled patrolled pa pa- trolled the exclusive residential district district district dis dis- dis- dis on the northwest side where the phantom has appeared three nights I in succession attempted to attack I three women and entered at least leasta a dozen homes Once he threatened to slit a baby's throat if its mother made an outcry and three times limes he has escaped gunfire gunfire gun gun- fire unscathed by leaping into bushes Both day and night shifts of ot the city police guarded the district comprising comprising com corn four or five blocks where the city's finest homes ar are arc ed The marauder apparently Is a maniac maniac ma ma- police said sald for he returned each night to the scene of ot previous encounters encounters en en- counters despite the fact heavy guards were in evidence During the day po poss posses scoured woods and bottom lands west of the city but found no trace of the elusive shadow Despite the arrest of a suspect suspect sus sus- poet after the first fini foray the terrorism terrorism terror terror- ism continued