Show POLICE OLICE f J NOW NO W THINK PORCH CLIMBER IS HIGH TONED CROOK Sleuths Haunt Leading Hostelries Lying in Wait for Raffles and Bunny Car Men to I tote fote ote Guns Healthy Beggars Congest the Chain Gang L Is Mr Raffles Rattles In town And is Bunny Bun Bunny Bunny ny with him The police pollee are begin beginning beginning beginning ning to think so There have been too many burglaries In Salt Lake for In Indolent Indolent indolent dolent Mr Raffles HarrIes to accomplish alone alona Therefore Bunny Who is Mr r Raffles Who Is Bunny Traveling men and others who have I noticed noU ed strangers smoking cigars with a grand air In the lobbies of at downtown hotels have not understood that the sleuths of Salt Lake have ceased the fruitless s search of the tho cheap lodging houses for the busy burglar and are now haunting the tho spell hostelries in the hope of fer ferreting ferreting ferreting out an guest and In Inthe Inthe the tho end seizing a few trunks laden with jewels and silverware stolen re rc recently recently from the tho Millet Daly Evans Whitney Clinton and other residences This new move on the part of the po police police lice was announced at police pollee headquarters yesterday when a desk sergeant expounded to a group of street railway the theory that the tho indefatigable inde indefatigable Indefatigable fatigable Salt Lake Lako burglars were silk hattel swells who slept late at leading hotels drank cocktails with politicians and and in the wee sma hours collected trifles in silver sliver gold or precious stones to defray expenses Who Vho knows but that the agreeable drummer or promoter who bought you youa a Tom and Jerry last night was waa a porch climber with nails in the heels of his boots Who indeed Perchance the burglars are kleptomaniacs kleptomaniacs kleptomaniacs maniacs men who in the day gather dollars in a rational and proper man manner manner manner ner md and at night go so forth to climb porches chisel windows ransack r ns ck bed bedrooms bedrooms bedrooms rooms and spoil Turkish rugs with the drippings of tallow candles Now that the police suspect the pres presence presence presence ence in town of a Mr Raffles Rattles every everybody everybody everybody body is under suspicion When a hun hungry hungry hungry gry man drops Into a restaurant and orders pickled frogs legs it Is dollars dollan to doughnuts that the stranger who comes In a moment later and calls for lor forham lorham forham ham and eggs is a sleuth bent upon making a study Ware the frogs legs Such a repast Is an evidence of bounding prosperity such as burglars are now enjoying and will attract the sleuth hounds of justice jus justice justice tice There Thre is no doubt that the astonish astonishing ing number of crimes In Salt Lake of ot i late have caused great concern The i success of ot porch climbers and burglars Indicates ates that they are arc adepts In their line lIno and easily able to elude the po police police police lice So Sn far petty thieves have occasionally been captured but no trace of the Jewel thieves tl ieves has been found But while Mr Raffles is engaging the attention of the sleuths the street I railway of the city are be becoming becoming becoming coming alarmed about the holdup I men Many conductors and motormen have had experience with queer strang strangers ers which have set their nerves upon edge They have hav applied to the pollee police for permission to carry revolvers thinking that there is danger of an at attempt attempt attempt tempt to hold up street cars In ex explaining explaining the desire of the street rail railway railway railway way teen uen to carry arms one of the car carmen carmen carmen men slated stated that many strange happen happenings happenings happenings ings are seen by the street railway em and that If it the men were armed they would take a hand In a number of which at at present they turn their backs upon Owing to the aid that conductors and anc motormen could give to the police pollee il ilis it itIs itis is possible that the street railway em will be allowed to carry arms But the burglars porch climbers and highwaymen are not the only trouble troublesome troublesome troublesome some element now engaging the atten attention attention attention tion of the authorities The Increasing number of vagrants upon the streets of the th city is a source of great solid solicitude solicitude tude For some time nast Dast there has been a daily dally train of stalwart beggars led before Police Pollee Judge DIehl The judge expressed some uneasiness yes yesterday yesterday yesterday afternoon as to what Is to be bedone bedone bedone done during the winter with this class elas of offenders If they are arrested and given the usual thirty days in the chain gang they will at the present rate of Increase soon fill the city prison and form a chain gang requiring requirIng requiring ing more than the present number of guards At present most of the men in the chain gang are beggars All AH are healthy health husky fellows who claim to tobe tobe tobe be laborers who have fallen upon evil times If It these men continue to flock to Salt Lake Lale it will be necessary in time to form more than one chain gang ang The present chain gang is a congress of nations lations ten Men en from all parts Darts of tho the world are gathered there to do penance for wrongdoing There is a Chinaman a Jap an Englishman an Irishman a a Swede and a representative tive ot of several other nations also white and black men of American birth |