Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-06 | Page 3 | Ogden Man Held as Women's Assailant; Taken to Salt Lake

Ogden Man Held As Women's Assailant; H Taken to Salt Lake H ' Jack the Hugger," a so-called pervert per-vert who has terrorized womenfolk of Ogden for several months, Is b to have been captured. Detectives Walter Wal-ter L. Moore and W L, Taylor having arrested Roy Mitchell, alias Floyd Val ton. alias Albert W. Miller, alias! George Arthur Miller yesterday. Mitchell is 6uspccted of havinu at.-' tacked two women in Salt Lake Satur-' day night and has been partially Identified Iden-tified as the man who committed the act, officers assert. He has been cm-ployed cm-ployed as a barber at the Dee hospital hos-pital SHOOTS AT INTRUDER. At 11 o'clock Saturday night, Mrs. Clarence Miller, ?.32 South Third East street, was attacked in her home by B man. She obtained a revolver and shot at the Intruder, who fled. Later Mrs. L. E. Montgomery, who lives al the Palm hotel, was attacked by a man near Fifth West and Second South streets while returning from a visit with a neighbor Two hours later she was found in an alleyway by a patrolman patrol-man She luiil been rendered uncon sclou3 by a blow, she said. A description of the assailant was sent to the Ogden police department and at 3.50 o'clock yesterday Mitchell was arrested at the hospital. Following his arrest. Detectives L P Wire and G. B. Hamby came to Og den and took the man in custody. POLICE RECORD CLAIMED. Officers say Mrs. Miller made par- tlal fdehtlflcatlon of the man, while Mrs. Montgomery was too ill from the effects of the blow to attempt to lden- j tify her assailanL Mitchell, or Walton, is well known to Sail Lake police, it is claimed, and recently served six months In tho city J Jfeil In that city for a similar offense. On numerous occasions, they say, he has escaped Salt Lake police by run- OFTEN PURSUED. It is believed that the prisoner may be the prowler who has been in the habit ol Insultilfg women In this city j i i ' nMj For considerable time, operations oper-ations were confined to the upper por- limn of the bench, but his more recent ! offenses have been somewhat removed from the places where hi3 appearance I ' was at first reported. H The Ogden police have pursued bus- on several occasions and several ' -I lots al intruders have been fired, not jonly by officers, but by people whom tho pervert has alarmed by his vile conduct and obscene language J GIRL'S RECOGNITION. Within the past, two weeks, a girl v. ,is hi tacked on Jackson avenue by an unknown man and In the struggle that j followed, a ring was wrested by the girl from the man's hand. The girl II will probably be asked to view Mitch-; Mitch-; oil to determine whether or not he was i he person who attacked the her. The clrl is said to have obtained a first 'class description of the man.