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Show WQUIp MffflEI Li jned Criminals Avoid 1 Through Fear of lyMarksmanship' of Offi- cers on Duty. NIGHT FORCE KNOWN FOR ITS ACTIVITIES Patrolmen Are Receiving Lessons in First Aid in Order to Establish "t Efficiency. Despite the fact that Salt Lake City covers) a large territory and that police officers, judged on the square-mile 15a-sis, 15a-sis, are somewhat scarce, the depart- , ment favorably compares with the police po-lice force of any other city. According to well-informed officers, Salt Lake is given a wide berth by the notorious crooks of the country. It is said that criminals recognize in Salt j Lake a city where officers, when they pull a gun, shoot to kill. This fact has struck terror into the hearts of many hardened criminals, and as a result they make no stopover here.' Some Were Doubters. Some of the bolder members of the 1 criminal world, however, have looked 1 witbi disdain on the opinion of old jail- birds and have ventured into this ter- ritory to maim and rob. In nearly ev- I ery instance they have been lodged be- J hind prison bars, and today regret that they dic( not heed advice of persons 1 ; who, for once, at least, said a good I t word to them. 1 The city is declared to be as free ot 1 crime as any city of similar size an the 1 world, . I Night Force Record. I The night force of the department is I declared to be incomparable trom coast 3 U coast. Lieutenant W. S. Keyting s J in charge of this force, and" his boy s when they go out on a call return with j Their meiS nearly every case J0?:J cessful has the night force been that it has .been likened to the Royal Northwest mounted police. This force is madeip of Lieutenant "Billy" Key ting, 1 trolmen C. U. Patten, L. L. Larsen A T Thomson W. L. Pavne, B. C. .11'e., 1 fnd Osar Brown. They are all picked 1 men wht can always be relied upon m J aDPatTolmaen larsen made a great cap- tore when! single-handed, he went into . A a saloon that a burglar was robbing, 1 La despite the fact that the. robber J was' armed, arrested him, iorcing the i man to climb through a window. Pa-. Pa-. trofman Patten figured -P ln a recent revolver duel with Mexicans. 1 The night patrolmen have gone to unheVengted Pspots where ng.r h lurked on scores of occasions. I uey have risked their lives so that the hves J of citizens may be protected to the f u 1 1 set extent. In a word, the mgnt rorce e of the Salt Lake police force has more ';- than made good. k Courtesy of Men. ' A rs tLtJLaen is ne cvihic dby the femt as e4SedCef ne-, ne-, essity of prompt and careful attent cm I n all details, nowever small, which Vht affect ihe Sfey e1 ftw I Efficiency is the kenyote ot success ' this department today," ceojdinS m X sentiment voiced by one of the vet- in officers of the force. . in ! Wntlv the policemen have received tof Yns in first aid, and now most of er4 I know how to arrest a hemorrhage A a man bleeding to death after ,ess1 3Pcut an arterv. Kesuscxtation of then Vnnarently drowned has also been ?- 6, P hem, and the officers have e h! themselves to be apt pupils, the 81 i - taugnii shown V Sothlng ot their sanitary con- |