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Show Lookout For Robbers Pretended to be Intoxicated Mlddletown, N. Y., Dee. 26. Tho local police decided today that considerable con-siderable theatrical talent la running to waste In tho person of an unidentified uniden-tified man who finally persuaded them early yesterday morning, aftor long argument, that he was not In a condition con-dition to bo locked up. It was obvious ob-vious when they met bJm In front of a department store on Main street, that he waa suffering from an excess of conviviality at least it struck them that way then. Rut he argued to such good effect that they eventually de- i cided that he was sober enough to be . ullowcd to gu. The policeman's judgment as to the j stranger', sobriety was vindicated v.hen they discovered later that, while he was arguing, his pals, believed to , have numbered throe clover profes- sionnl cracksmen were ripping the back out of the safe In the store. They got $200, but overlooked a box containing 7o". Evidently they loft huniedly, for they abandoned some burglnr toola of tho latest pattern, including in-cluding an Instrument known to the underworld as a "can opener.'' designed de-signed for rlfping out tho back of a safe. The police are now convinced that the ma:i who simulated drunkenness was their lookout and that his Iol-j arguments ar-guments were what informed h.s associates as-sociates that the police were ne.ir. Soni.- of the tools left behind were wrapped In a New York City newspaper news-paper of December 2::. and this, with i the ftct that it was a city and not ! a mailed edition, convinces tho police ; that the uku were New Yorkers. j |