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Show Police Discover New Adage for Night Watchmen Clever Thieves Find 'Safety First' Plan for Profitable Profit-able Work. THE old adage, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach," has found a local analogy. It is, "The way to a watchman's snooze is through a bottle of booze." (The rhyme is purely accidental). ac-cidental). Anyono in doubt about the congruity of the new aphorism need only ask the police. Within the last month at least six trusted watchmen guarding the property of large Salt Lake mercantile establishments have repeatedly agreed to step around the corner and indulge in astronomic observations obser-vations for considerations ranging from a gulp of gin to a pint of whisky and three quart bottles of beer, while clever wholesale thieves have carted wagon-loads wagon-loads of loot away from the premises. The most ridiculous bargain of this nature was consummated a few nights ago at tho warehouse of a large grain and feed firm, where the thieves arrived ar-rived with an empty hayrack, a pint of whisky and three bottles of beer. When they departed they were minus the intoxicants, in-toxicants, but still had the hayrack, plus a goodly load of hay. At a wholesale grocery house a thief i traded a pint bottle of gin for two hams and three slabs of bacon. In a third warehouse a consistent rogue called on the watchman every night for a week, and each time he paid a quart bottle of whisky for a sack of wheat, which he sprightly carried away on his broad back, chuckling over tlie alarming alarm-ing reports of soaring grain prices. In each instance the firm has merely discharged the unfaithful w-atchman, : all of whom had guarded their respective respec-tive employers' property for. from ten i to fifteen years and were regarded as t indispensable fixtures of the establish-I establish-I ments. In all cases the peculations have extended over considerable periods pe-riods of time. The police extorted the confessions from the guilty watchmen. |