Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-10-27 | Page 12 | Scissors Are Suspicious

I SCISSORS ARE SUSPICIOUS. j Simplo Household Implement Causes Two Arrests at Murray. Tho Leader store at Murray was ; Durglarlaed early yesterday morning, with . n loss In clothing and notions of $50. The 1 burglars used candles In Hhoe boxes for ' dark lanterns. One of the panels In tho : front door was sawed out, after which ' It was tin easy mattor to lift the rotalnlng bar Inside and gain entrance to tho store. The finding yesterday of a pair of scls-. scls-. sora near tho door of tho store which was burglarized, led to tho arrest of Hober , Mackey and Chris J Johnson on suspicion sus-picion of being the guilty oucb. Several . days ago theso two men, armed with a pair of scissors, wero having 'great sport ' going from saloon to saloon in Murray on the hunt for "sleepers," who, when found . -were ehorn of their beard's or moustaches f&rxA then awakened, that tho crowds might nJoy their discomfiture. Tho sclBsors found at the store yesterday wero ldon-.tlllod ldon-.tlllod as tho ones used for this purpose by Mackey and Johnson, and they wero prorrtptly hunted up by Marshal Mauss I -and Deputy Sheriffs Steele and Sharp and brought to tho county Jail. Tho men are well-known characters In Murray. They i.made no attompt to escape. Mackey gave o two bond for his appoarance and was ' released from Jail.