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Show EXTRA P0li DISPLAY VIUI I j . Exercise Great Care to Apj! f hend Crooks Who Fol!o4'& Conference Crowd. L- . MOUNTED OFFICERS ARE 1' MADE TO PEDESTRIAN? Sneak-Thief Enters Home 3 Makes "Get-Away" With I ' Ring. jL Thirty-five detectives and policenL patrolled the streets and alle3-wayJjL Sa)t Lake City until 11 o'clock SaBj day night. From that time until flr" I o'clock this morning between fifw' and twenty men kept surveillance riCj and controlled the criminal elemonf Zion. The increased number of patrolm. on dut3 Saturda3 afternoon nnd nia was due to the big conference crowdjy' the city. Either preceding the coriflf enco or in the wake of the large null her of visitors for the three days3 conference the city usually is besio'S, by grafters of all descriptions, w. rush here to pre3r upon the uususpaL ing, and to protect the conference itors from the crooks every availar. policeman or detective on ihe force V' pressed juto duty. This order will pig vail until the meeting ends, every ni connected with the police dopaTtmJ? being required to do extra duty daily Mounted Police on Toot, "fiE Extra men were placed on duly afir o'clock Saturday afternoon ana h until 11 that night. Some wero in pli clothes and others in uniform. Theft tectivo department, numbering set. men, was pressed into service, fljfj Mounted policemen were ordered frjji their horses and into uniforms to hjs protect thp unsuspecting from 'jti' crooks, as a large number of evil-lot ing characters were upon the streSj and Guards TLirris and Kast gave .'t chain-gang prisoners a day of rest aft assisted in patroling the town to ST press lawlessness. Every incomE train vyas met by pat.rolmrn, usuaP in plain clothes, who watched, andfc suspicious appearing characters wjf: closely 6hadowed or taken into tfv porary custod3. fiJ Owinq to tho strict vigilance o.;L. police the city was remarkably qui no picking of 'pockets or other "casesx theft being reported until a late ho? Saturdn- night. Dennis MurphvJJ? Ma lad reported that he had b robbed of Sli5 in or near Stndar'sir: loon on AYesl. First South street, l, could give no clue to tho thief. j Snoak Thief at Work. J As he was heavily loaded up w. ! mountain dew and could furnish thcTl ' partmeut with little information S . ocruing the alleged theft, not rauch tontion was given his case. He ."" locked up as p. lodger at the cit3"ij to give him time to sober up. J J A. sneak thief entered the residei' of Mrs. Letitia Hatchings at 7 Thp? ton court and stole a gold ring, vJTflj at $10. in the absence of the famir The daughter saw the man and f nished the police with a good doscrf tion of him. Four or five fights and one or i' wife-boating cases marked the dav. of minor seriousness, however. Thl ' fights occurred at Third South nnd Mj streets, in front of Walker Bros' atd '. Policeman Bot3 arrested two men e iug the names' of ,T. E. Wilkinson a r J. H. Ward for fighting there, butl ' participants in two previous fights awa3' from him. Belligerents appca: io have turned the place into a duellj Jf ground, and Policeman Doty wns Isi busy suppressing fights until he fina f declared that he would clear the etf j of fights or run in all the pedestria passing that way. Wilkinson say's he is a student ,4 A gave his age as 21 3'cars. Ward,' E years old. says he is a mechanic. liceman Doty said he participated i three street 'fights altogether. m He n i locked up, but Wilkinson furnished '$ a .bail. |