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Show policehaF no trouble Sixty-five policemen, regulars and specials, patrolled the streets of Salt Lake Monday night for four hours, beginning be-ginning at 7 o'clock, to prevent the commission com-mission of acts of vandalism on the part of destructive boys who were bent on celebrating Halloween In the good old-fashioned old-fashioned manner, that meant the destruction de-struction of property of a movable kind. As a result of the precautions taken by the Police department, but little damage of a serious nature was done, and there were fewer complaints registered regis-tered in the Police department than ever before on a similar occasion. Until the specials went to their beats at 7 o'clock, the telephones in the desk sergeant's office kept up a continual clatter. So many complaints were received re-ceived that it was Impossible to give attention at-tention to all of them. At 7 o'clock the 'phones ceased to ring and the department depart-ment had no further trouble. Every section of the city was carefully patrolled, and whenever the patrolmen found a crowd congregated, they dispersed dis-persed it and sent the boys to their homes, threatening to arrest them If caught again. Patrolman Corey, who was In the southeastern part of the city, saw a large boy terrorizing a crowd of younger ones by chasing them and brandishing a big hunting knife. The officer took the knife and turned it over to Chief Lynch Tuesday morning, where It w ill be held until the owner calls at the Police department de-partment and claims hi 9 property. J. M. AVood, a special patrolman on duty in the pouthwestern part of the city, saw a crowd of about twenty boys pulling a three and one-half-inch lumber lum-ber wagon down the hill. He stopped them and found that they had taken It from the barnyard of a teamster who lived six blocks up the grade from where the boys were caught. He compelled them to return it to the owner. A young man living in Sixth East street heard a scramble of steps on his front porch. He has a bulldog which he took on a chain in pursuit of the crowd of boys that were thronging the yard. The boys fled, with the man and- bulldog bull-dog in hot pursuit. Finally the dog broke from his master and seized one of the boys. "Ouch! Leggo me leg!" shouted the boy. The man recovered the dog and took the boy by the collar, marching him up to an electric light. The boy had a wooden leg, upon which the dog had seized, and was not hurt, though he was bacily frightened. He was released on a promise to keep away from those premises. One year ago bridges and culverts belonging be-longing to the city were torn up, which cost the city $6o0 to replace. No depredations depre-dations of this kind have thus far heen reported to the Street department. |