That the police department of this city is efficient was demonstrated Saturday morning when a burglar was caught after he tried to break into  a residence in the west end of the city. At 20 minutes of 2, Daniel Carn, who lives on the northeast corner of Rose and West Fourth Streets, called the police station in city hall said that as man had climbed onto the porch roof and tried to enter the house, but had been frightened away. The marks of his shoe had been in left in the damp ground and a watchman at the Rose Street crossing had seen a man in a gray suit and colored cap run from the house in the direction of the rubber factory.

Officers Ebert and Kaufman and a Gazette and Bulletin reporter hurried to the scene in the big patrol wagon with a few clues offered, set out on foot for the house breaker. The whole neighborhood was scoured.

After further hunting, Officer Charles Ebert suggest they check the Northern Central Railroad. Upon entering the Cemetery Street crossing, they asked the watchmen there if he had seen a man answering to the description.

There were two men nearby and one was wearing a gray suit and a gray cap. The man was then questioned and said he had come up from Market Square from the car leaving there and had gotten off at the corner of Cemetery Street and Erie Avenue to talk with the watchman. His shoes showed signs of having been dropped in damp ground. He was taken by police to city hall.

After a short cross examination, the man, identified as Philbert J. Pouillot, confessed to trying to crawl up on the roof and said he was only trying to see what was going on in there. It was believed that he was in search of booty and Chief Tepel took him before the alderman on a charge of attempted burglary.

Compiled by Lou Hunsinger Jr.