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Show POLICE WATCH FOR SAFE-CRACKING GANG They Believe Latest Job Was Done by-Men by-Men Wno Slew Officer Hargrav on Eccles Avenue. With police traps set all over the city for the men who, on Thursday nkjht, blew tho safe of the Crager Iron works on South State street and escaped, es-caped, the officials hope that they will be able to apprehend the gang before other robberies, rjerhaps more serious than the Crager atfair, take place. The police believe that the .ang is the same that last August accomplished four daring robberies on Eccles avenue and shot to death Night Watchman A. C. Hargrave. Whilo the men who blew the Crager. safe made away with but 70 cents iu "stamps, it is feared by the police that they may attempt more daring jobs, possibly pos-sibly in the business district. In police records the names of sus-, picious characters are kept on file. Practically every known criminal confines con-fines himself to certain kinds of crime and the officers know just what men do such-and-such a job. With that information infor-mation the city detectives are picking up all suspicious characters and holding hold-ing them until they are assured that , they have not been committing crimes: recently. I |