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Show REIGN OF CRIME IN ST. LOUIS, MO. St Louis, Mo., Feb. 10 While tho police department "has been busy for j the last three weeks Investigating it self, because of a shortage of between $17,500 and $25,00o In the rcliof association asso-ciation funds, criminals have been having a merry time. For the twenty-one twenty-one days ending last night, 728 robberies rob-beries have been entered on the police po-lice records. Included In the list of crimes for the perlgd arei 119 burglaries, burg-laries, 487 robberies by sneak thieves and 23 highway robberies. The examination of the books of the relief fund Is not yet completed. Discovery of several promissory notes for large amounts and signed with tho names of men high Im tbet department, has placed these men on the defensive. defen-sive. They" claim the signatures are forgeries c John Healy, secretary of the fund, Is under 51,000 bonds to answer February Feb-ruary 23, any charge that may be nude against him. |