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Show THEFT LEADS TO 1JIHHIP Stung to supreme efforts by the report re-port of the theft o! a set of plaster era and other tools Saturday night or some time Sunday the police and city detectives jeiterdaj raided sa loons on lower Tweity-flfth t-treet and secured f7 men du'lng the afternoon, all of whom were locked up In the city jail on a chirgo of vagrancy, pending a rigid investigation by tho police Into the nimerotis petit larceny lar-ceny cases which lav been reported hi the last lew weeks. A. A. Driscoll. a contractor and plasterer, who ban been doing tho work on the remolding of tho building build-ing on Twenty-fifth street between Lincoln and Grant avenues, was the complainant respoislblo for the raids made jesterday b the police and detectives. de-tectives. According to the story told by Mr. Driscoll several men have applied to him fot employment since he has been engajed on the Twenty-llfth Twenty-llfth street operaion, one of whom be recognized as 1 man from Denver whom he Had metbefore. While he did not remember tho name of this man he noticed particularly partic-ularly the ur.lon cird carried by him, and kuew where the man fcpent his time while out f work. He says that he was suspclous of the crowd with whom the nan associates and when he missed his tools Monday morning immediately reported tho matter to the police with a description descrip-tion of the missing tools.' After a search of the trlous pawn shops and second hand stores in the city the police finally discovered tho stolen articles in a second hand store rn lower Twenty-filth street and from the proprietor of tho store managed to get a fairly good description of the man who had sold the tools. From the description given by the keeper or the second hand store Mr. Drlscoil recognized the man of whom he had been suspicious and accordingly the police decided to make au example of the mau if he could be captured and incidentally clean out tho gang which is suspected of having been, exacting ex-acting a toll of petty theft from sections sec-tions of the city for some two or three weeks. As a result of the first raid 11 men were 1 ckod up in the city jail on vagrancy charges, while the second raid of tho afternoon brought in six more. All of these men were lined up for the Inspection of Mr. Driscoll but he' failed to find tho suspected tarty. |