George McPherson attempts to robs the apartment of Irene Cumber

After leaving her apartment for one hour and forty minutes, the deponent [Cumber] returned to find the defendant [McPherson]

After leaving her apartment for one hour and forty minutes, the deponent [Cumber] returned to find the defendant [McPherson] “tampering at the front door with some shining object in his hand and did see several keys hanging from the lock.”A police officer informed the deponent that the defendant “left and went downstairs, and in the lower hall there was found a stell jimmy the marks of which fit into the marks made on deponent's kitchen door and front room door; that in his possession there was [also] found a bunch of three keys, one of which is blank and fits the ordinary lock.”