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Show BURGLARS TAKE HAM MOW High Cost of Living Has Made TheiTt Change Loot. High cost of living has changed the methods of thieves and burglars at Dallas, Tex. Instead of stealing jewel- ry and silverware, burglars are steal- v-big v-big shoes, hums, eggs and bread. I.iur-Ing I.iur-Ing the past week fifty persons whose houses have been burglarized have repelled re-pelled the loss of shoes mid foodstuffs, but found their valuables intact. "Wilh shoes selling at from $12 to $'0 and a ham worth So, it is no wonder won-der that thieves prefer these to a piece . of silverware," say the police. "Then the burglar can sell the shoes without suspicion. lie gets per pair for them, and if be happens to grab eight " or ten pairs while folks are at the movies be has done a gootl day's work. You can't Identify shoes after a second-band dealer has them five minutes. Folks will have to put their extra shoes in the safety vaults of the bank if they expect to keep them these days." |
