The record-union., 1893-07-31
IN AND OUT OF TOWN.
Thieves Who lndustriOusIy Work the
Unwary.
A Grocery Story Robbed in Broad Day
Hght-WholesRle Raids on
Poultry Yards.

Three thieves touched off" Heffernan
& Dalton's grocery store at Twelfth and
P streets for s. 75 very neatly on Satur-
day afternoon.
The only persons about the store at the
time were Dalton and Peter Bauquier, the
latter being employed as porter. Three
strangers entered the saloon in the rear
OF the main store, from the P-street en-
trance, and called for beer. Dalton
waited on them, while Bauquier was en-
gagged in preparing a dish for the lunch
counter.
One of the men drank his beer hur-
riedly, and. excusing himself to his COM
panions, fastened from the saloon. The
other two drank their beer slowly and
engaged in a pretended argument over
what rate of wages paper hangers should
receive and took occasion to refer dis
puted points to Dalton, thus engaging his
attention. Then second round Of beer
was called for, and it was while Dalton
was drawing the beverages. with his
back to the door connecting the store,
that the third man got in his work.
Slipping around the corner 10 the front
door of the store, he quietly sneaked in
behind the counter and stole good-sized
dl dN6I III w ulCu lOOS0 CDdDg6 WAS kept,
with which he made of.
His con.ederates drank their beer and
departed. Just then a customer purchased
something IN the store, and when Dalton
went to the money-drawer to max G
change he found it was gone with its
contents, IS 10 in silver and about twenty
pennies.
couple of neighbors' boys fastened
to the alleys near by to search for the
a fHhau ;,,t
where the proprietors of the store keep
their horses, but it was empty, with the
exception OF the pennies. These the thief
dld not care to be burdened with, as their
possession would be strong circumslan-
tai evidence Of his guilt, if he should
happen to be caught.
Ihe police were notified and the men
described, but they have not been cap
tured.
THE CHICKEN STEALERs.
There are couple Of men travelling
about the county in one-horse wagon
ana raIdlng the ranches nightly for
chickens. They are experts at the busi-
ness, as their success demonstrates.
Early Friday morning, as heretofore
mentioned, they made quite a raid on the
premises of Mr.. Sherburn at Sutterville.
stealing large number OF valuable fowls.
On Friday night call was made at the
farm OF George Duden, near the Lake
House, where they gathered in about six
dozen fowls of different breeds, bat all of
the best and highest-priced varieties.
one OF the rOosters stolen cost Mr.. Duden
Sl3, and Tor many OF the other fowls he
paid from fifty cents to ii each.
Duden makes speciality of raising fine
poultry, of which he has between 700 or
500 head on his place. For all of that. he
does not care TO part with six dozen of
them in one night for nothing. If any of
those chickens ever get into a tamale mill
somebody will have choice picking on
their bones.
Just before the raid on Duden's poul-
try yard the thieves visited the premises
OF George Rich, in the same neighbor-
hood, and got away with four dozen fowls
from his hen coops.
The wagon tracks were traced to Rich's
place the next morning and from there 10
Duden's, after which they were lost, as
the cunning poultry merchants avoided
the middle of the dusty roads and proba-
bly, struck of through~by-lanes.
1t does not seem possible for them to
dispose OF the fowls at any near by town
without being detected Mr.. Duden
thinks the fellows have a ranch or camp
somewhere i'll the edge of the foot hills.
or in some out-of-the-way place, where
they keep the fowls and run them into
market in small lots