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Show riHIEVES ENTER ' STORE' II Z1QN SALT LAKE, Jan, 12. Agnln bur-glars bur-glars In tho usual manner mado an entranco into a down-town store during dur-ing the early hours of this morning. About 2 o'clock a. m. a window In the rear of the People's Cash store. 12 West First South street, was broken and men, who wero apparently well acquainted with the stock, carefully selected numerous bolts of the very best silk and tho most choice silk mufflers and proceeded to throw them out of tho rear window. TJioy then filled their pockcta with razors, pock-etknlves pock-etknlves and gold-filled watches, it would have required a wagon to take the pile of silk and mufflers away, and the men were cither frightened away or went for a wagon, returning about 5 a. m. A porter cleaning cus pidors In the rear of a saloon next door saw ihem return and dash away, leaving the whole pile of silk goods to soak and ruin In the mud. Logs $1,000 In Silks. Manager William Langton. of the store, said this morning that tho loss fiom tho destruction of tho silks would approximate $1,000, and that the alue of the knives, razors and watches takes is about $100 A stranger entered en-tered the store yesterday and, after requesting a clerk to pull down many bolts of the very best silk for his Inspection, In-spection, finally purchased four yards, contrary to the ordinary manner of masculine shopping. Th0 detectives are hard at work on this clew. Work of Amateurs. "The regularity of theso early morning morn-ing burglaries." said a well known business man this morning. "Is becoming becom-ing monotonous to the citizens of Salt Lake City, and a source of Immense loss to the merchants. In almost every ev-ery case, entranco has been made through the rear, the manner of entrance en-trance and the variety of goods taken, has indicated the work of sneak thieves and amateurs at that. It shows that the burglars took the risk because they needed food, clothing, and funds to leave tho city. Tho professional, pro-fessional, who cracks the safe and rifles the money drawer, has been con-splcuouslv con-splcuouslv absent. "The latter class aro easily distinguished distin-guished by the officers from men who are hungry upon tho streets, both by the records sent from other cities and from the general hard appearance of the face. This city is a mecca for penniless pen-niless tramps aud a stopplng-off place for graduates of the eastern penitentiaries on the road to tho Pacific Pa-cific coast." Sixteen Patrolmen. A polico official todav said: "With an area as large as that of Denver this city patrols Its streets from midnight mid-night to daylight with 16 patrol officers. offi-cers. Denver affords 5fi. "These sixteen men cover the downtown down-town district only from South Temple to Fourth South stree. Including State, Main and West Temple streets, and from South Temple by way of Second and Third South streets to tho depots, and from State street to Eighth East. The residence districts and all stores and factories lying outside out-side theso boundaries must depend on calling tho police stntion by telephone tele-phone after the burglary has happened. hap-pened. In addition to this force of 1G men paid by the city, the merchants employ eight special nightwatchmen who are supposed to walk the alley and see that all rear entrances and doors of the establishments paying for the service are locked and not subject sub-ject to burglars. Their success 13 measured by the continuous raids now in progress through rear windows and doors. "Sixteen city patrolmen, walking ono way. cover 52 1-2 blocks, and blocks twice as long as those of most' of the cities of the United States And cities as large and larger than Salt Lake have one patrolman- to 750 inhabitants. Salt Lake has ono patrolman patrol-man to 2,000 Inhabitants." |