Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-22 | Page 7 | Alleged Pickpocket Bites His Captor in Attempt to Escape

Alleged Pickpocket Bites His Captor in Attempt to Escape Picking a a. mans man's pocket on the roar rear vestibule of a street car car upon which there is a a policeman in a a un uniform orm is something out of f the ordinary but that thatis is i what occurred on a Su arnous car near the hotel hotl this afternoon George Chase Case was the tho policeman He was waa 3 wearing a a uniform coat and had bad a astar astar star pinned on the outside of his coat coat Bot tho the aIe alleged cd dips were ere arrested and are are in tb the city jail Jai C. C A. A Benstrom Benstrom Ben Ben- Rn strom Ga South State street street was on the tho stroet street car car with his bis wife and We were on on their way to Saltair Benstrom being bel unable to get et a seat on the car car was was' wa standing on the tho te rear roar platform According t to to his hi story S S. S B. B Barber one ono of f tho the alleged pickpockets pickpocket feigned feIgned intoxication All Al the too men on the plat at form of ot the tho car were lau laughing at Barber Baher who had his shoes shoes' off of and was wa tr trying in to t put thorn thom on People on the car say that hat he would hold up one foot and then fall laU in such a way that tho people woud be bo crowded ba back k into the car whore where his alleged partner H. H L. L Norton was standing Wc waa ws tho the nearest man to Norton and after much jostling Norton said that hat he be was going in to get got off of c complaining corn com m. m about the drunken man being on tho the car says that as theman the tho thoman theman man th thought u ht of of getting etin off of the car he ho thought of his pocketbook Peeling Fooling in his hip pocket b he noticed that it was m missing sin and immediately gave the alarm D Detective G George Chase Case captured Barber before beloro ho bo could leave leavo the tho car but Norton orton succeeded in getting away ironi froni the crowd for a a time When ben hew ho he rom saw w that there wa was ivas not riot much chanco chance of him getting etin away he throw threw throwaway away the wallet taken taen from Benstrom's p pocket C. C M. M Petersen an optician whoso whose place of business is at 58 East Eat Fourth Fourt I South street saw Norton Noron throw tho the wallet walet and picked it i up After a hot chase through alloys and streets in the the ic vicinity of the hotel botel Norton was finally captured b by C. C W. W Whitman South State street Norton bit Whitman's ba d in an an effort effort ef ef- ef fort to get away Whitman's injury was attended to b bv bY a physician at the emer emergency ency hospital hospital Tho The wallet taken from pocket contained more than 50 and anda i a grand larceny charge ti will be lodged against tho men charle