Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-08-10 | Page 9 | Heroic Woman Capture Thief

HEROIC WOflflN CAPTURES THIEF Holds Young Intruder in Her Home by NecK While '. She Telephones for the Police. '.... ONTARIO, Aug. 10. Supposing no one to be at horn last evening, Guy Murphy, a young man. by cutting a screen, forced his way Into the residence of John E. Baker, corner B street and Palm avenue. Mrs. Baker Bak-er wa In the honse alone at the time and had no light, burning. She saw the boy en-. en-. ter and cautiously followed him aa he passed from room to' room. Finally entering a bedroom, he found a puree and was in the act pf emptying it -of Its content when ) Mrs. Baker, summoning her courage, seized Ihim. For a few minutes there was a lively struggle, but in the end the plucky woman overpowered the prowler and. dragging him by the scruff of .the neck to the telephone, ahe notified the polloe. i Marshal - S. F. Glass hastened to the IVve of action and took the young burg-b burg-b - f4nto custody. He was also forced to f .JrHss another robbery which occurred ' t"C day. ago at the' Baker home. Mr. Oflver Mores, who Uvea not far away, while feeding ber. chickens the other even-; even-; lng -heard a -noise in an orange tree. Later she investigated and found a gunny-sack j full of. beer bottles. Mrs. Mors told her 5 husband, who In turn informed th authorities. authori-ties. Young Murphy confesses this theft and admits that he sold some of the' beer. Murphy is the son of respectable parents living at . 210 West B .treet. who f ur-. ur-. nlshed his ball last night. Last year he waa .erioosly 111 with typhoid fever, and since that time he has never seemed quite I right In hi mind. He Is not over 18. and ! probably will be sent to the reform school.