Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-14 | Page 2 | Industrious Thieves Evidently Wanted Bath

I'll : INDUSTRIOUS THIEVES EVIDENTLY WANTED BATH ;j j Chicken thieves were more than onit- ' j narily active Monuay mornlngr jTm1 did I 4 not confine themselves to the festive barn- ' yard fowl, but showed that they are real i j captains of Industry by extending their j; 1 operations to household and kitchen ef- , : fects. I j .They attacked tho chicken cooph of i j three families, carried away forty-one q fowls, a washtub and a boiler and twenty r I bars of soap. Apparently they needed a A ' bath. At least they must have contem- plated taking one. j Thieves attacked Bishop Theodore Mc- 3 Kean's coop, at -103 North Twelfth West f ii i street, tore the padlock from tho door jj 1 and carried away twertty chickens. They , put George Allgood's coops, at 36 Glen- V ; Z I dale avenue, all to the bad, devastating 1 ' ? 1 It of fifteen fowls and Including In their r u booty the twenty bars of soap. :l ' i Mrs. J. Llttlewood's henhouse at M5 i : v North Tenth West street also was at- . ' i tacked and eisht fowls, a washtub and a 7 I J washboller taken. Monday was wash-day i i f 3 for Mrs. T.Ittlewood and she was com- !f , pelled to borrow a tub and a boiler from I ;' -! a neighbor.