Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-08-25 | Page 8 | Schaefer's Story

SCHAEFER STORY jack schaefer of salt lake writing from portland to a salt lake paper tells of his experiences with the pick pockets arrested in ogden he and his wife had boarded the train at the short line depot in good shape and in good spirits and jack was rustling around in the aisle of his pullman getting his traps out from under the feet 0 other travelers and into his section when he noticed a strange man and woman pass and repass him several times presently he placed is hand in his hip pocket tor his wallet and lo 10 and behold it was not there mr heart bumped up into his throat because there was with some valuable papers involved and the loss 0 the money would make it necessary for him to borrow in order to get home ho did some lofty thinking until he reached ogden and made up his mind that the parties who squeezed past him so often were the guilty ones so tha the train pulled into the ogden depot schaefer jumped off and related his boes woes to the local policemen they at once instituted a search and found the man wanted in tho smoking apartment of a forward sleeper and the woman cuddled up in the berth of the rear sleeper the man and woman were taken from the train and after being put through the sweating process the man owned up and surrendered of the it seems that be had thrown away the purse with three 5 alls the police said they would take the prisoners to salt lake 5 for a live coyote call on D A smyth european hotel ogden