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Show For Better Security H TWO desperadoes broke their bonds last week ' M and just at the hour when most people give M up their work for the day and start for their jfl homes; started on a raid of robbery and murder. M That was not their first adventure of the kind. fl Previous successes had made them bold. They M fill the description of the men who robbed the M train near Ogden nnditllled one porter and fatally M wounded another : ' "- better t1 "xn any H I .',,,.i,r.-..j;r..'t- -' niMB H . M who have been apprehended since. How long H have they made this city their rendezvous? And H how many more who have like Ideas of preying H upon the public, are harbored here? In this busl- H ness the city should help the police. Every block H J should have its supervisor, whose business should H i be to know every resident, all comers and goers. H how long strangers remain and what seems to be H the nature of their visits; to keep tab on them, B i from day to day, and regularly report every suspi- H r clous character to the chief of police. It would HI not cost much to have two of these for each block, H I one for the day, the other for the night and, if i i tried, before six months the wisdom of the plan H f would be amply vindicated. Hj l A properly guarded city not only prevents the JH commission of many crimes, but a city so pro- jfl il tected soon wins a reputation and toughs avoid H ' it Had there been a special supervisor over every H i block during the past four months, the daylight H , burglaries would not have been attempted, burg- Hl I laries that cost innocent citizens tens of thousands H of dollars; some murders, too, would not have been perpetrated; and other crimes would have H' been avoided. A certain class of criminals lay H their plans on the supposition that at certain B hours of the day and night certain parts of the H I I city have no guardians. If they knew that every M , ward of the city was being guarded every hour, M ) day and night, they would change their plans. H Indeed, many of them would decide not to make m ! any plans for such a city. Such knowledge, too, 1 n would make the regular police'more effective, for M they would not have nearly so many runs only to M , find that the criminal had escaped. It should M be tried. |
