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Show , BURGLARS ON j A RAID OF I HOMES H ) , According to reports mado, at the H police station, last night was one or. H ! much activity on tho part of burg- B j ' lars. It neoros, however, that the H ) thieves were successful la their raids H I to tho extent that they were not cap H f turcd. No definite clues as to tho H I identity of tho men haV6 been fur- H f nished and the officers of the city chh B i do nothing more than "round up" sub- fl piclous characters and search for H things that were taken from the places H rnnsacked. B During the past few days it has been reported from Salt Lako that that H I city is Infested with joggracn and j j burglars to the extent that a number B of places have been robbed of valu- H ablcs and considerable money has H j been taken Contractor P J. Moran's H A homo was burglarized and about 3? H '4 000 worth of cosh, jewelry and ofhei H I valuables takon Dr. M R Stcwart'a H home was also sacked and $S00 taken H by theburglars Last night In Ogdcn the home of B Dan Pugh was ransacked and a suit case containing things bclonglDg to the family, the exact valuo of which cannot yet be determined, carried 1 j away The Pugh home is at Xo G70 B j Twcnty.cighth street. Mr. Pugh and wife were not at home, but the young 1 man of the house stated that every- thing in the place wan practically H turned upside down Some thing's H' 'tvGre overlooked. SS in cash being left on the dresser of one of tho rooms, H" placed there the evening beforo I H The Dougless grocorv store at No I 1136 Twenty-second street, was en- tered and considerable of the stock H of groceries and somo small change H in the money till taken. The back H door of the building was forced 1 A masked man stole from the dark- 1 ' ness of a tree at Wall aveuo and Twenty-sixth street and commanded a messenger boy on a bicycle to throw t "p his hands The bov. however, re- B J fused to obey the command and he BBBB'-v j J made good his escape No shots were BBBH j 1 fired and the robber strode away into BBBf j ambush after the boy bad gone. H At about the midnight hour a lady BBBH living near the Atlas saloon on Twen- BBpBpJ I ty-fourth street, observed three men BBpBpJ making their way through the rear BBVBl door of the place She gave the BBVBVJI j alarm and soon after tho policeman BBpBpJ on that beat chased three follows BBpBpJ through the interior of the block be- BBpBJI I tween Washington and Hudson ave- BBVBB nues, the men making their get-away BBVBB J In the shadow of the business houses BBpBpA 1 The burglars succeeded In breaking BBpBp- away might have looted the prom- BBBH Iscs There was somo cash In the BBVBbM' , money till and the day's receipts were BBVBB cashed away in a money sack, the pro- BBpBpl prictor says, that could have been BBBBBJ easily found. m i BBBBBl oo |
