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Show LOOK OUT FOR A LAUNDRYMAN Who Asks For Your Laundry and Fails to Return With the Clothes-Police Clothes-Police Meet With a New Form of Thievery Which is Being Practiced in Ogden. i There Is another grafter In town. He poses as a laundrynian, calls at the door of the residence, asks for the laundry, sets It, hurries away ami never comes back. This Is the report that came to the police .vtntion this morning from u number of housewives in different sections of the city. Those who have bpen duped by Ihe fellow say that he Is exceptionally polite and frank in his attitude. He Invariably appears at the kitchen kitch-en door and states that he Is "after the laundry' for the Ogden Steam Laundry company," or some other laundry, as he takes a notion to name. I Peine nulto unsuspecting, the women folks have hurriedly gathered the un-laundered un-laundered goods and turned i horn over to "the laundry man." That's all there Is to It. Neither the clothes nor the laundiy man comes back. It Is estimated that during the week the fellow has secured a. good many dollars' worth of clothes. In two or three Instances it was reported that valuable c.iats for children and other costly wearing apparel had been Riven the man. A pretty flood description Is supplied sup-plied and it is thought by the olllcers I bat they will be able to land the thief. |