Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-18 | Page 9 | Party Burglar Gets 3 Purses

PARTY BURGLAR GETS 3 PURSES Salt Lake City's "party burglar" wai busy over the week end, stealing steal-ing three women's purse from two residence, police reported Monday. Mon-day. A purse containing between $5 and $10, belonging to Miss LaRue Simper of Murray, was taken from the home of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Smith, 239 East 2100 South. street where . Miss Simper was visiting. The purse was found at the rear of the house. Theft of two women's purses containing $4 in cash, from a bedroom bed-room of his home, was reported by Walter J. Hellman, 1678 Roosevelt Roose-velt avenue. The purses were found near by. In each case, police said, the burglar cut a hole in a window screen, raised the window and lifted lift-ed his loot with a long stick.