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Show BOOTLEGGERS AT UNiONSTAT!ON DENVER, Colo., Dec. 2. Members of tho state constabulary stationed at the union passenger station in Denver to prevent the importation of whisky are becoming experts al guessing I he contents of suitcases and grips without with-out opening them, according to Capt. Harry F. Allen of the constabulary. "I think that our men are not wrong more than once in a hundred times when they stop a man and ask him to open his suitcase," he said. "One look at a man carrying a suitcase is usually sufficient to tell them whether they aro dealing with an ordinary traveler or a bootlegger." A suitcase filled with whisky, he said, weighs from sixty to eighty pounds. A man cannot carry it. with a loose careless grip of the hand. Another An-other thing that members of the constabulary con-stabulary havo observed is that a heavily loaded suitcase strikes a man's leg. i |