Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 106, 14 January 1898 — Little Lead-pipe Thieves [ARTICLE]

Little Lead-pipe Thieves

Three little lads from 12 to 13 years of age, named respectively Oliver Thompson and Edwin and Albert Webster, were arrested yesterday afternoon at the old power house on Boyle Heights by Officer Dyke. These young burglars had gained an entrance to the place by getting in through a window and gathered up some lead pipe and leather hell ropes wnich they intended to soli at a junk shop. Oliver Thompson was released last ntght at the Instance of his mother, who promised to hnve him forthcoming today in the police court at Judge Morrison's afternoon levee.