Show clobes with tile police lock round open door of oti itofe no street closed with the police lock is an every day entry on the morning re turns tarns sent to police headquarters Is it some kind of 0 a padlock asked a reporter of 0 superintendent murray the superintendent laughed no he said it is riot not a lock at it all it is a board vo when then a policeman f finds a door unlocked lie be nalla nails a cleat on the floor inside cuts a piece ot of board join long enough to dro drop p in in tinder ta the heli handle andle when ho he pulls pu alls it shut arid and the door is effectually ba barred you would need a latt I 1 altering ering ram to open it how the owner gets gels in ili next day is his lookout lockout that Is tile the police lock havill having anade the place safe the officer reports what lie he has done at the station house if I 1 the sergeant is on liis his long oil tour and feen feels cross lio lie lays back till the small hours of the morning when the store keeper is in his soundest sleep in ila i lein and morrisania Morri sania find and then tele telegraphs graphs to the station nearest his homo home to send him down clown forthwith when he be comes down donvil blowing like a porpoise thinking that the lias has been burned up tip or cleaned out by thieves lie I 1 is told to go and lock liiri his floor door once a sergeant of that kind met finet his T isaach atch in a harlem tobacconist besent lie sent word down from his houseen house in answer to the message just leaie acae it open ill take chances 4 11 ile he had been there before when the coney island season begins and spry clerks are in ili a hurry to get away wit with th their girls be se fe doors are sometimes found open at night flight in down town stores the gaslight gas light burning at the safe so tha the policeman may see it from the out outside sll betrays them if it does not burn the storekeeper is sent scat for when the nights get warm too the bank watchman just steps around the corner for a drink leaving tho the bank unguarded tho the one in the bank of 0 the metropolis in union square did that two 3 cars ago stepping out of the window at midnight and returned an hour later to find every officer ef cc the bank froni the president down in his bis seat awaiting him and half a dozen of capt williams police officers on the steps one of them hall had found tho the win tiow biow open arid and given the alarm that was the last drink that watchman ever took lie ile swore oft off then and there as the condition of Us his being given another chance and he kept the pledge new york sun |