Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-11 | Page 16 | Woman Nabs Tulip Raider

Los Loses s Blooms i Mrs II G. G WOMAN NABS TULIP RAIDER Mrs H. H G. G Is proud very proud of or the tulips that grow in her yard ard at South Second West Vest street It made her good and mad when trespassers kept pluckIng pluckIng plucking pluck- pluck Ing them and bounding over her fence with pretty bouquets Thursday night someone climbed the tho fence and stole 35 blooms wrecking a nicely laid out pattern That was the last straw the tho affront complete Mrs decided to act Friday night she oiled and loaded a 32 revolver and sat in the hallway of her house Her vigil was soon rewarded At 1130 a. a m. m two shadows approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap the yard One faded into a L bush the other leaped the tho fence Get out or Ill I'll shoot she shouted No result She Sho yelled louder and pulled the trigger The sh shadow shidow dow made the re return return return re- re turn trip over the tho fence considerably considerably considerably consider consider- ably faster than the first hop Both shadows started up the tho sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk Mrs hot after them and voicing threats to shoot They worked One of or the shadows stopped and resolved into a man Mrs son said was Harry Tomlinson 2 1 Vest West Sixth South street Mrs held him at gunpoint gunpoint gunpoint gun gun- point marched him back to her house and called police Tomlinsons Tomlinson's Tomlinsons Tomlinson's Tomlin- Tomlin sons son's wife wiCe came along and berated her husband Two stalwart policemen Patrolmen Patrolmen Patrolmen Patrol Patrol- men G. G M. M Hopkins and C. C W. W Farnsworth arrived They took Tomlinson home hoping to capture the tho other shadow whom Mrs Ry Ry- Ry- Ry nearson identified as Wesley Vesley Brown same address as Tomlinson Something happened at the Tomlinson Tomlinson Tom Torn linson residence He SHe gave us the slip the tho patrolmen patrolmen patrolmen patrol patrol- men said in their report with Unusual unusual unusual un un- usual brevit brevity Mrs appeared at headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters Saturday morning and signed trespassing complaints against Tomlinson and Brown who are being sought She also offered lessons on how to hold a captive Tulip stealing has gotta stop ordered Chief of Police W. W L. L Payne Flower bed after flower bed is beIng beIng being be be- ing ruined Im I'm assigning a special detail to stop it He did not say whether Patrolmen Patrolmen Patrolmen Patrol Patrol- men Hopkins and Farnsworth will join the detail