Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Lales of GOIHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Lales of GOIHAM and other CITIES

Sits on Burglar Until Police Arrive

ETEW YORK.—Frederick C. Gray, PI hopeful nineteen, who came to the big city from Quincy,. Mass., to make his, fortune, was thrown downstairs and sat on, and then locked up the other day on a charge of unlawful entry. In Gray’s pocket the police found the cigarette case of James E. Bourke, former blacksmith mayor of Burlington Vt, and optimistic letters to the youth’s father and others in Quincy, in which Frederick said he had married a $60,000 heiress. * Mary Smith, whose mother has a furnished room house at 935 West Fifteenth street, said she saw Gray coming downstairs carrying a suitcase. She wds aware that he did not live in the house, so she screamed for her mother. Mrs. Smith met Gray midway in his ' flight downstairs. They rolled together to the bottom, and then Mrs. Smith .sat on the young man while her daughter went for the police. - , Search by the police revealed that

Gray had, oesides several razors and pieces of Jewelry, a handsome silver cigarette case. ; - It was marked “Presented to the Mayor by the Governor’s House Guard at the Grand Tri-Centenary of Burlington, Vt” James E. Burkei » Democrat, was mayor of Burlington at the time of the Lake Champlain tri-centenary celebration. Some of , the Jewelry found was marked “Walter and Clayton Burke,” and the police believe it belongs to the former mayor’s sons. A letter, which Gray said he had written to his father to “chuck a bluff,” ran as follows: j “People In Quincy thought when I left home that I wouldn’t make good, but I have all right I am having one .line time. “I met a girl here who is worth $50,000 in her own right, and Bhe fell in love with me and we got married. We are now living with her mother. “I expect to return to Quincy soon and when I do I am coming back in a large touring car, that I have Just bought I want you to meet me in Providence when I return, and we will motor into Quincy, and show them something. They’ll be surprised to know how good I’ve made.”