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Show TAKEN FROM ROGUES. A Collection of Tool aod t Dealing iBstrnnient. Chief Young's private office is a Ter-itable Ter-itable museum. And what is more, every article in the collection has a history, liis dek drawers are filled j with knives, guns, sandbags and other articles which Lave had intimate association asso-ciation with the criminal history of the city. Its front is littered up with communications com-munications from the police departments depart-ments of other cities, with photographs of criminals wanted and with other articles ar-ticles closely allied to thief-taking. One of the most dangerous looking tools in the whole collection is the article arti-cle wilh which young lain was slugged . a week or so ago. This consists of a piece of garden hose about eighteen inches in-ches long with a bar of iron running through it. It was found near the scene of the assault next morning. Had Mr. Caine's hat len of felt instead of being a stiff straw article it U about certain that his head would have been broken. A couple of sand bags are also among the collection. They are a fo-t long and are made of heavy canvas. A good, hard lick with one of these means insensibility in-sensibility and probable contusion of the brain. These were picked up in the neighborhood of a garroting. bee. alo. The weapons are f all sorts. One git'antic pistol weighs at least two pounds and looks as" though it would bore an iuch hole through a mountain, and from this all the way down to a diminutive derringer the collection ranees. There are tools used for turning keys in doois and skeleton keys until you cannot rest, and lots of safe blow ers implements. Opium layouts, trick knives and other articles taken fmm the persons of criminals are as many, almost, as the sauds of the sea. A pair of broken handcuffs tell of the eM-apc aud subsequent arre-t of their wearer. Watches are plentiful, too. One of these in particular, is a huuting case, gold tiniepicce.Hamden case Xo. 1;, Spriuglield movement Xo. :W.W'. The case is engraved on both sides. The cheaper watches are too many to count. The chief intends to get a mammoth cabinet and in it place his collection. It is getting to be too big for the oflice. |