Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-07-23 | Page 3 | Doctor by Day is a Thief by Night

DOCTOR BY DAY IS ISA ISA ISA A THIEF BY NIGHT COA COATESVILLE pa July 23 After After having for more than a 3 ear led a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde existence stealing b by b- night and practicing his profession slon b by day Dr Benjamin Holbrook an oculist of this place has confessed to o many small i fh eil burglaries and is now In iii the Westchester t Jail lail lIe He will appear before the ne next het t quarter iuar- iuar ter sessions admit Isis Ills double life lite anti and throw himself upon the mercy of the tho court It is said that Holbrook has committed at least eight burglaries He kept a hors i and buggy and at night would drive Ions long distances from home tie his horse hoise In th the tho woods and then go forth as a burglar Tho The particular thefts that proved his undoing undoing un un- doing were In n and I Dc ock Run In each of these small places Dr Holbrook Hol Hol- brook broke into the railroad station inthe inthe Inthe in the the- dead of ol night st steeling stealing all the mileage mile mUE age and other railroad tickets the change out of the cash drawer and ev even n such heavier articles as a R- typewriter and nd a copying Dr Holbrook loY press k used sed one one of th the S stolen stoJen I mileage tickets tickets' for t two o months after i iwas it 13 was by tho the railroad When he lie tried to use a second mileage ticket from the stolen p package It was taken up and sent to the tho railroad officers