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Show CHOULE'S SHOE SHOP BURGLAR "IZED. Burglars Get Only a Coat and Veat Much Shotuinsr and Other Noise, but no Officers Were Aroused, Choule's shoe shop on lower Centre street was broken into again last night. Burglars seem to have a special delight in entering this particular store. So frequent are their exploits inside that building during the drk hours of night, that many have come to the conclusion that it is not tramps who enter it every time. Rather that it is Borne bitter enemieB.residents of Provo, who know the structure of the shop well and who have it "in for" Mr. Choules and who desire to do him all the harm they can. The persons who entered the shop last niirht certainly knew well the premises, the irail structure of the back door, itB weakest parts and how it was barred. They knew also that the boy Bert Choules", a lad eighteen -years of age, who sleeps inside is a sound Bleeper and that the dog he usually us-ually has in the room with him was not in that, room last night. a. large hole was cut in the back door bo that an arm could be pushed through to unfasten the caich and lift the bar; then the stiff brown paper removed re-moved lrom the window frame (the glass was broken out the last time burglars entered) which enabled the burglars to reach around through the bars and remove the Bmaller catch the door has no lock on it and the door opened. The burglars then entered en-tered and looked gently at the sleeping boy, lifted an overcoot off his bed and found it would not lit and put it on the counter. Then t&ey appropriated to their own use the lad's coat and vest. Four pairs of shoes were then selected and the intruders retired. At the door, or lather just outside, they made enough noise to awaken Bert who took a couple of shots at them and they vamoosed rapidly, scattering the shoes as they ran. Then the boy came out the front way and shot again. Tom Martin of the telephone station was awakened and he rang and rang the bell on the tolephone in the marshal's office where loliceman McEwan waB supposed to be sleeping, but no answer came Johnnie was either at home or bo dead aBieep that the house would need to fall un him before he would awake. Marshal Knighc was lying sleeping leBS tnan a bloct away from tne shooting, but his slumbers were not disturbed. The night watchmen came on she scene but they could not teave their blocks to go in search of the e caped burglars, and the criminals were allowed to go in peace. |
