Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-05-21 | Page 2 | Exciting Chase after Burglar

EXCITING CHASE AFTERJURGIAR There la no clue as yet to tho burg ar who ransacked th house of John C, Fraln, 637 Twenty-sixth street, and who fired upon Mr. Fraln while tho latter was pursuing him In the vanity. van-ity. A pipe, which was picked up in the neighborhood yesterday and turned over to the police in the hope that It would prove to be the one stolen from the Fraln residence, was not identified. Mr. Fraln, upon returning to his home Wednesday evening, observed a light flashing about in thrj hou.ie and also found one of the windows open. Ho aroused the neighbors by tossing gravel against the upper windows win-dows and then asked them to call the police. At this moment the burglar appeared and was confronted by Mr. Frain .armed with a thin piece of bourd. The burglar warned the latter lat-ter to leavo him alone, but Mr. Frain promptly struck him over the head J with tho board, breaking IL The robber rob-ber then fired a shot which failed to take effect and started on a run down the lan in the direction of the sub high school. Mr. Fraln, thinking that the burglar's burg-lar's gun must lie loaded with "blanks." started in hot pursuit, the man firing a second time. Upon reaching the school houae grounds and falling to the pavement In his haste, the burglar fired a third shot and disappeared down Adams avenue In the vicinity of the Presbyterian church Officers Pender, Kelliher. Burke and Hcarn were summoned from vurions points and although they arilved within with-in a few minutes after the alarm, no trace of the man could be found. Oifirer Burke, upon examining Mr. Fraln's weapon, which he had broken over the robber's head, discovered a number of black and gray hairs sticking stick-ing thereto evidently struck from the burglar's head. Nothing was taken besides a stick pin and a meerschum pipe.