Show OHE WAY TO HANDLE FOOTPADS kill them off at one hundred dol lars a head none but dead footpads wanted how chief broder of st joseel gaes criminals every city has a groat deal of trouble during the winter months especially with footpads there are all kinds ot tough characters on the road and they will make the night ot doubtful batet they aro closely watched in the handling ot this class ot people the police ot each city have different methods some ol 01 them run them through the courts and send them up for a big term of years allowing thorn many long days in the penitentiary in which to ruminate over the old adage the way ot the transgressor is hard however ogden has had little and practically no trouble with the footpad burglarious or hobo element this winter the rock pile at the city stockade where there are no fires and only the chill stones for company the cold winds the snow away so the may be better handled Is a source of much discomfort to the or hobo and the close inspection made by the sheriffs office and police department of every suspicious character sa soon as he steps toot in the city prevents the gathering of any gang in ogden to what lengths city officers may be driven in the handling of the tough clement may he judged from the following chief of police deodor of st joseph today posted a notice at headquarters offering a reward of for every footpad killed by an officer mind you the chief says this offer Is not for live ones they must be dead I 1 must have the coroners certificate that the man was a footpad or a eafe blower and that aio has been planted under six feet of cold sod before the reward will te paid the only way to stop this flourishing industry Is to kill oft a few had men its the footpads hide that I 1 will pay for not a live robbers we have too many of them now kansas city journal st joseph Is a river railroad and cattle town it is a manufacturing town and there Is much life so much in fact that the chief in order to head off some of the highway robbers is willing to pay igloo a head for their breathless bodies the above offer was shown to the chief of ponce of ogden but ho declined to follow the example |