Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-06-19 | Page 21 | The Tangle

I The Tangle I CLIPPINGS FROM THE PITTSBURG PITTSBURG PITTSBURG PITTS PITTS- BURG NEWS ROBBERS CAPTURED Band of International Thieves Bagged Home Bagged Home of John Alden Prescott Again Entered One of ot the most sensational captures captures captures cap cap- tures ever made by the police was made in this city last night bight at the home of ot John Alden Prescott the I steel magnate As was told exclusively exclusively exclusively in the News Tuesday the themen themen themen men entered Mr Prescott's house hOUle and robbed Mrs Prescott of ot over half halt a a. million dollars' dollars worth of jewels on Monday night This great robbery was made more mysterious by the amazing disappearance of ot Miss Zoe Zoo Ellington Elling Elling- ton nursery governess and Sydney Carton who was a guest in the house hous It is due to the clever insight o of Commissioner William Villiam Laidlaw that the thieves were caught although their mysterious return to the house within twenty-four twenty hours and so BO walking into the commissioners commissioner's commissioners commissioner's commis commis- net net is still puzzling the police Yesterday afternoon while Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Laidla v v. v who is s a friend of Mr Prescott was in the library over the premises a young oung man ostensibly from Roth Both Chapman Chapman Chapman Chap Chap- man interior decorators rs tried to tomake tomake tomake make his way into the room on some up trumped-up excuse Hearing Bearing voices however he Immediately mado made his getaway Mrs Irs Prescott who was talking to him in the hall told the story of her husband husband and tho the commissioner commis commis- when she returned to the li library li- li Immediately Laidlaw telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned to the decorating establish ment and found that they had sen senno sent no one on such a mission Commissioner Laidlaw when interviewed in interviewed in- in said As soon as I heard Mrs Prescott's Prescott's Prescott's Pres Pres- cotts cott's story I was sure that something something something some some- thing was wrong and that the man was in some way connected with th the robbery of ot the night before had been sent to the house to reconnoiter recon recon- I was not sure what It was th the theman theman man came for for but whatever it was wasI I knew he did not get it as Mr r. Prescott and I were in the library all the time Therefore I know that whatever the people wanted who had sent him they wanted mighty bad It was then I had my second hunch which I followed against the judgment of ot Mr Prescott and every everyone everyone everyone one else on the police pollee force As I told them to take tako the precautions which we did last night would not nol hurt anybody and they might lead to solving the entire tragedy In accordance with the commissioners commissioner's commissioners commissioner's commissioners commissioner's commis commis- commands a cordon of ot police police police po po- po- po lice was secretly placed about the house Mr l Laidlaw having entered by the servants servant's door early In the evening At about 10 o'clock a splendid town car with two men on the box drove up to the carriage entrance and three men men in evening dress descended descended descended de de- de- de from the motor motor and rang the bell They were laughing and talking apparently were friends of Mr Copyright 1925 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW This TOMORROW This newspaper story continued