Show CROWDS THREATEN MAN AlAN WHO TRI S TO MISTREAT A CHILD Police Officer Burton Hurton Saves John Smith from Rough Use Usage Smiths Smith's Arrest Relation Reton of Pitiful b bI follos Story by bV I 10 Yer OId Prompt action on the part of Police Officer Burton probably prevented rough handling handling- of a man giving the name of John Smith by a crowd of infuriated ed men this morning Residents on West Vest First South threatened ven vengeance vengeance for the alleged mistreatment of little H Hedwig dwig Bluck 10 years e rs old I Hedwig is IS a daughter of Franz W. W Bluck luck a laborer employed by the Utah Light Railway company and f lives at 70 Bothwell street street- THE CASE WAS THE MOST DARING DARING DAR DAB ING OF THE KIND OCCURRING IN SALT L LAKE KE CITY IN A LONG LONGTIME LONGTIME TIME SMITH WAS ARRE ARRESTED TED SHORTLY AFTER 10 O. O LOCK ATTHE ATTHE AT AT- THE POLICE STATION HE WAS RELEASED RE LEASED ON A CASH BOND FURNISHED BY A FRIEND THE NAME NAME OF THIS B BONDSMAN IS UN UNKNOWN vii KNOWN TO THE POLICE The case cate was given iven to the attention of the County Attorneys Attorney's offic and a an investigation is now makin making there The child was was was' wason on on the verge of nervous net nero v us prostration as as she told her story I I came up town this this' morning with my sister she sho said I went to the company's store store 60 West First FirstS S South street t. t and bought some wheat fo for the fo-the the chickens at hp hpe e. e Sister w ent to ge get other pome-other r things Never Mind I He Said i ait to o fIo f tome m me and aSked aked me to take i a walk with him J I did not knOw the man iian but DUt h he he seemed e e 1 nice i s M ho t talked to to toe roe ne He Ho put his arm around me and started to take me ine west from the front of the I store H I I told him t that r I I was waiting formy for inc iny sister and he said raid N Never mind we will be back in time tune enough h to meet h laer e I I Went with him to the the thc corner of W West st st. Temple and nd First South streets and then started back with him He asked me t to sit down lown on a a. a box for a amin min minute and pulled ed edme me a down w. w with him The child wept piteously as she continued con- con tinned her story Frank Brown a Witness Frank Brown an employee of the company ny said The little girl came came into th the store stor this morning mornin and purchased some wheat She had a little cart in which she was was was' going goin to take it home She said that she was going goin to wait for her sister for fora a 3 few minutes and walked to the front part of the store A A mom moment nt later I saw sawa a man put his arms arms arms' around her waist and start to walk west with her I noticed that the child was trying to pull pun awa away from the man and so so watched them v The pair went west est to the corner cornera a and d then started back Just west of the store the man and th the child sat down on an unoccupied stand 1 I was was still watching them and the actions acion of the man lid did not strike mo me as being just right His actions were such that if it bad had been my child there would have been something doin doing with him pretty pretty pret pret- ty quickly I HI went to the tho man and told him that he was under arrest I brought him to the store and at once notified Officer Burton who took the man to the station A Crowd Gathered 4 It was only the prompt arrival of the officer that prevented the man being be he ing roughly dealt with by the crowd that gathered The fhe story of the little littlechild littlechild littlechild child appealed to everyone who heard it and all that would have been needed would have been a a few minutes and a aleader aleader aleader leader and there would have been another another another an an- other tragedy declared a clerk in one of the nearby stores a few minutes after after af af- ter Smith had been taken to the station In the crowd which gathered were heard many ny angry s Smith Smith seemed gr greatly relieved when the policeman came camo and took him bim to the station S SHo Ho He maintained his his' innocence but further than this said n nothing thin Smith is believed to be an assumed assumed as as- name The man arrested says he is a collector but declined to say by by 1 whom he is He his employed gave ag age age as 28 years County Attorney Hanson said this afternoon af sf- tern on that he will take talce lip up the casa cas with the Sheriffs Sheriff's office |