Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-20 | Page 2 | 'Yegg' Captured While at Work

YEGG' CAPTURED WHILE AT WORK Man Drilling Church Safe Had Diploma From Burglary School PROVIDENCES, R. I . Feb. 20. Discovered at work drilling holes In a safe In th. veatry of st. Paul's Roman ' Catholic church here early Sunday I morning. Charles Benson, 39 years of age. who po-soses What purports to lie a diploma from a Sal! Fran. ISCO school for burg I hts was surrounded by a 1 ordon of police and arrested. The Rev. Martin F Reddy. pastor of the church, awakened by the sound of a window being opened In the I church veatry, watched the intruder at work with a full set of burglars tools at the door of a safe which contained con-tained a portion of the parish funds. I tie telephoned the police. Among possessions c laimed by the I man, and taken from a checking room I in a railroad station here are several correspondent 0 course lessons in how to be a burglar, a diploma signifying that Hens.m is a graduate There also was a full line of burglar's tools, flashlights flash-lights and Other unusual equipment. PHOTOGR M'll POt M An lnvetigation of the papers and pamphlcus found by the police Indicated Indica-ted that Benson had taken a mull course In the Wayne Strong School of Safe Work in Los Angeles, al This data Included a diploma made out In the name of Fred Read, on which was a statement announcing that every graduating student receives a similar certificate. A prospectus of I Hi.. school contained a picture the promoter of the scheme, which the police po-lice say is strikingly like Benson. He denied helng the man and the Ias Angeles An-geles authorities will be appealed to, the police announced, to ascertain the varlus identities Involved Benson told officer he was in California in January. He had in his possession a letter enclosing a f4nal payment of $10 for his course of instruction In safe entering, en-tering, which he had not mailed. INQUIRY U.N COAST SAN FRAN ISC' 1 Feb. 20 There may be a correspondence school for burglars in San Francisco, but If there Is the police don't know Its address. Anyway, according to C iptaln of Detectives De-tectives Duncan Mutheson. the Institution Institu-tion could not have been highly successful suc-cessful In teaching the profession. Captain Matneson said the failure of the school." if a school there Is, was proved by the arrest of Charles Benson., Ben-son., a burglar and safe cracker, and alleged graduate, w hile al tempting to rob a Providence. R. I . church. But there have been schools for crime In Sun Francisco. Police recalled that some years ago arrests v. ere made nere of educators in the art business 01 profession of shoplifting and still another time of persons who conducted conduct-ed a school for pickpockets. Students in these two institutions of underworld learning were made to follow fol-low an exact curricula of theory' and practice, ureordlng to the police