An alert newspaper reader helped city police nab a burglary suspect, police reported.

The tipster, who police did not identify, saw a story about five people being charged in connection to a burglary at the Hotel Brunswick in Wednesday's Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, police said.

He called police and said one of the accused, Larry Silver, 53, was eating a free breakfast provided for the needy at the St. James Episcopal Church, police said. So police showed up at the 119 N. Duke St. church and took Silver into custody at about 8:30 a.m.

Silver had been in Lancaster County Prison on unrelated charges, but was released before police filed the burglary-related charges against him, city police Lt. Todd Umstead said.

Another of the four men who allegedly broke into the 151 N. Queen St. hotel on Oct. 26 — 53-year-old Craig Allen Stoudt — remains at large, Umstead said.

Tina Marie Burkholder, 49, who was charged with receiving stolen property taken from the hotel, also is not in custody, he said.

Silver, Stoudt and Burkholder had all stayed at the Water Street Mission at 210 S. Prince St., police said.

Wilson Lee Berger, 48, and Brian Sean Costigan, 39, the other two men charged with breaking into the hotel, also stayed at the Mission, police said. They are both in county prison.

rrobinson@lnpnews.com