Daring Hotel Burglar Bound Over for Trial
After being caught in the act at the Lansing Hotel, a young suspect who made a brazen escape from police is headed to court.
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Jo Kristensen Brodine, alias John Kristensen, the young man who was caught in the act of burglarizing rooms in the Lansing hotel, and who made a daring break from police officers while being led to the court a few days later, was bound over to the superior court yesterday afternoon by Police Judge Arntson in bonds of $1,000. He will be tried before Criminal Judge Basterday in March.
“The young man who was caught in the act of burglarizing rooms... and who made a daring break from police officers.”
Public safety and court processing in early 20th-century Tacoma were often defined by these small, tense dramas of petty crime and jailbreaks. The Lansing Hotel, a once-prominent feature of the downtown landscape, reflects the era's bustling boarding-house economy.
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