Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-20 | Page 1 | Jack Dempsey's Mother Robbed in Salt Lake

II II I Jack Dempsey A c Mother Mo ther Robbed R o b bed in Salt Lake f YOUTH P POSING SI AS rH PHONE Nf J A S Enters Home on Pretext of Being Trouble Shooter TALKS ABOUT FIGHT Police Furnished With Description of Thief Posing as a trouble shooter for forthe forthe the telephone companY a youthful burglar gained entrance to the home I of Mrs Cecelia Dempsey mother of Jack Dempsey former worlds world's heavyweight champion and L atole ole 1000 in jewelry police reports Fri day stated Good afternoon Mrs Dempsey the pseudo telephone man greeted the mother molher ot of the boxer when she answEred the doorbell at her home on East South Temple street late Thursday afternoon Im a trouble troubleshooter sho shooter ler from the phone Theres There's an awful buzz In your phone and I came out to fix it The youth routh t I red the living oom and nd went through th the motions ot of fixing the telephone h TALKS ABOUT FIGHT You know Mrs D Dempsey Jack sure got a raw deal deM in Chi the telephone fixer said Baid as he un- un Continued on page 4 YOUTH POSING AS PHONE TAKES JEWELRY Continued from pare pae 1 screwed the mouthpiece on the transmitter I 1 never will get oyer oer that Ion long count Believe me Mrs Dempsey It if Jack ever steps into u. u ring with that guy Tunney again Im I'm going to have aU all the lon green greenI I can gathEr on him The spurious trouble shooter re replaced re- re placed the mouthpiece find tie tie- parted Halt Half an hour later Mrs Dempsey discovered her purse containing con con- taming 19 had been en cleaned 1 Fur urther ur- ur ther Investigation show showed d a plat plat- mum dinner ring with thirteen n small mall diamonds and a a. platinum watch with a diamond studded ease cage were also missing Mrs Dempsey gave pOlice a a. good description of the bogus telephone 1 Sh he said he was per naps haps 25 years ears old City Detectives Lee Chase and Chester Colborn made an Ion bon but tM the thief wa still uncaught un un- caught late FrIday Fridal a