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Show Potent Police Polemics WHEN Chief of Police Harry L. Finch Monday Mon-day gathered about him his plainclothes-men plainclothes-men to declare war on burglars infesting the city and assigning to them their roles in the offensive, offen-sive, he very evidently made it perfectly clear that he wanted the Jail crammed full of the larcenous lar-cenous gentry. The detectives obliged. Possibly his pungent nd potent polemics partook of pep unwonted, pursuant to the propinquities of the day. Monday, Mon-day, December 13, was his birthday anniversary. anniver-sary. He wanted to start it off right, as indubitably in-dubitably he did with his inspirational discourse before his assembled minions. On luch occasions occa-sions the chief is never at loss for appropriate and picturesque words to describe with uncommon exactness just what sort of individuals he wants rounded up. . Potency of the chiefs well chosen words was immediately evident when six burglars were brought to the station house, booked and stored In the hoosegow. Picked up by Radio Patrolmen A. J. Oren-cole Oren-cole and E. J. Barnes, Traffic Investigators T. W. Southworth and Lee Rogers was William Mathas, alias Robert Freeman, 48, with a criminal crim-inal record covering 24 years. A burly negro, released from the Wyoming state prison less than a month, ago, police say he confessed that ha had committed six burglaries since coming here. This pickup brought forth a well earned letter of commendation from Chief Finch and Captain E. A. Hedman, chief of detectives. Patrolman John Knollmuller picked up his man while he was carrying his loot from a beer parlor. Another, caught ransacking the room left vacant when the occupant was killed in a street accident, was nabbed by Detectives R. N. Brinton and R. C Anderson. Three others, one 2 years old and the other two 20 years, were also booked for burglaries. That was a good day's work. Hope is that Chief Finch's pep talk will have continuing effect ef-fect until the city is burglar-free. |