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Show oo WHERE LIFE IS A CONSTANT WORRY. i There must be some ery bad peo : pie m Salt Lake Cltj The chiel ' of police has issued instructions as a guide to prevent the citizens of hiE bailiwick being robbed and otherwise i.buscd. and here are a few of his warnings. Don't carry your handbag by the chain or strap, but loop the chain or si rap around your wrist and keep y ur hand over the clasp which opens the bag. Don't place your handbag or purse , on a store counter, ii might not be ; there when you look for it. Keep it In your hand or under jour arm while in stores. Don't enter crowds on the street or in stores, pickpockets like crowds Don't wear valuable jewelry when shopping Don't carry nice money than you believe you will need and don't make t display of ihe money you have. Don't purchase jewelry on the itreet, no matter how much of a bar Sam it appears to be. Don't fail to count the change ,iMi you and don't fail to be on the lookout Tor counterfeit money when leeching change. Don't leac your automobile or carriage on the street without a caretaker care-taker who is known to you. and don't leave any article of value in the vehicle ve-hicle while you are absent. Don't pay for C. O. D. parcels until you have examined the contents ami found that the goods hae been or-I or-I oered by you. Don't leave a messenger alone in a j room where he has delhered goods while you go to another part of the bouse; let him wait in the vestibule Don't deliver goods which have been received by you to any person who calls and claims that a mistake was made in the delivery, unless you first telephone the store and have the story verified. Don't have goods purchased by you delivered in care of others; order them delivered to you at your home Don't pay any attention to persons who claim they found your pocket book unless you are sure you lost it, and don't gfve them a chance to steal your pocketbook when you open your lag to look for it. Don't permit your messengers to deliver packages on the street to per- irvrno ww uu i mini ine goous are ior them, and don't permit them to deliver de-liver any package at houses which are apparently vacant. Don't make change for anyone until un-til you secure possession of the note I or coin to be changed. Don't deliver goods to express! agents or messengers until you make' positive that they are the persons j they represent themselves to Ik Don't permit your delivery wagon I to remain unguarded on the street If yon are a man, don't carry your pocketbook or wallet In your hip j locket; carry it in the inside pocket of your est. Don't allow anyone to plaee a newspaper news-paper close to your face in a public conveyance or elsewhere: such a person per-son is after your watch and chain or' scarf pin. Look out for persons who jostle you on platforms of street or railway cars; they are after your money. What a dismal Christmas Is before the women of Salt Lake who seriously take heed of all the chief of police tells them' Even the delivery boys are expected to go about seeing hu- j man monsters on everv corner, and ! the owner of an automobile Is warned to be accompanied by a care-taker or suffer the loss of hla machine and j contents. Any store doing a business busi-ness large enough to attract a crowd is to be taboo because the average Salt Lake crowd contains all the elements ele-ments that went to make up the band of forty thieves. Christmas spent in Salt Lake, If the chief of police has correctly represented rep-resented conditions, is a dangerou? nervo-racking risk beyond all possible possi-ble compensation in the way of enjoyment. |