Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-15 | Page 27 | Police Chief Urges Citizens to Cooperate with Police Force in Stopping Robbery Epidemic

Police Chief Urges Citizens to Cooperate With Pclice Force In Stopping Rcbhcry EpidcrJc to report to thla department acts they deem auapicloua. When men are available, as they are In most cases the calls will be given prompt attention. If It proven to be a false alarm, no one la hurt and If the laws have been broken, In nine eases out of tea the offender will be captured. "People should take just ths simplest precautions and use common com-mon sense about carrying large eume of money oa their person end making friends' unduly repld with persons met on the streets or at resorts. "It Is rrus there are pickpockets In the city and every effort la being be-ing made to apprehend them. Crlmee of this nature were anticipated antici-pated by the department following the Dempeey-Glbbons fight ' at Shelby. MonU where a certain element ele-ment of the crime world waa naturally- attracted from all parte of the country. It le just as natural they drift around and possibly drop Into Salt Lake, bat they will drop out again more auddenly onoa police po-lice get a line an them and some of them may find a permanent 'stopping place In ona of tbe stale's penal Institutions. "Salt Lake may consider itself fortunate there has not been more crime of the nature which has been going on for the past few dare with all things takes Into consi derail dera-il on." Salt Lake's police force Is as good as tha people ef Salt Lake want It to be. - Thla In affect la tha gist of a renewed re-newed appeal coming from Chief of Police Joseph K. Burbldge sod Chief of Detectives Riley M. Becketead, la which they urge cltlsene to cooperate cooper-ate with the police In stopping ths flurry of robberies and depredations that has struck the city. "We are practically helpless In ths matter of capturing and convicting criminals without the willing cooperation coop-eration of the . public," declared Chief Becketead In aa Interview Saturday. "We are the people s servants. ser-vants. Tha city with the t payers' money haa provided us with facilities facili-ties to quell crime and law violations viola-tions and we earnestly solicit the aid of cltlsens in performance of theea duties In tha beat poaslbls way. ' "For Instance continued Chief Becketead. "only a few daye ago the department waa forced to give freedom free-dom back to two men who were suspected sus-pected of entering a local business eetabllebment, carrying the eafe four miles in one of the eompany'a own automobiles to break It open and steal the contents. This because two residents who aided the robbers to lift ths safe back onto the truck atfer It had fallen off on Second South street whlls thsy were hurrying hur-rying away with It at 11:1 o'clock In tha mornmg. Tha kindly cltlsens were thanked and the robbers hurried hur-ried on with their loot. -Instead of reporting tha Incident Immediately to tha police, the cltlsene cltl-sene didn't seem to realise the strongly suspicious character of It until they read the newspapers the next evening. Tha Incident waai then reported to e and when the suspected maa were brought forth neither of tbe cltlsens were able to Identify them after worklag with them for at least ton or fifteen minutea the morning before to put the aefe back on tha truck. "We want residents of Salt Lake