Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-29 | Page 3 | Thief Uses 'Phone Ruse

1 THIEF USES PHONE RUSE RUS i p One Robs Bobs Cash Cath Box While Other Calls Up Proprietor Hello Is la this Gus YeS Well what ire are bananas worth to- to today td cia day Inquired a voice over tl the tho telephone at t the Weber Electric e company this morning n of Gus Gus- Mathews who had been called out it of the tho Los Angeles fruit store Bore of f t he be is the to taU tahl talo k to a man who aho ho said eaid ho he was sias as unable Ie to raise ralo Gus on his own oen 0 n o a I she worth 15 cents cent ada a de da pound Ous Qua replied andert and ert vied erton on to quote the puce nico of ot arlo s other When hen Gus returned to hi his store stora next door at 2245 2 45 Washington ton ave ave- avenue ave nue he found that his cash regis regis- toT ler had been ben rifled and bet ceu u 15 and 20 O In cash taken The Tho ruse Is an old one but Is 13 with aith great success at pc PC- PC p Intervals als hi ks cities of any ansite y sloe officers declare One swindler calls the proprietor proprietor tor of a store to the telephone nOl t no t door saying that hi his telephone is I a out of order and while the tho fIt first fir crook crook e engages J gs his man in a lengthy con his partner slips ships III and makes way say with silk the cash An attempt was made earlier In Inthe Inthe the morning to work ark the tho iuso use 0 On otho 1 tho Iho Weber Electric compan company 2241 j Washington avenue a but when th the manager of the E I A Olson an ant anSons J Sons company store called B D C and told him hint that he e was wanted on the tho phone ho re- re reI replied replied I plied Have him call here sal ani infused to leave Ills his store