The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-18
WHY KICKS ARE MADE
Comics of the STANDARD" SyStemat-
ically Stolen and Sold.
THE GUILTY LAD IS CAUGH |
Detectives We're Placed on the
Burglarized Route With Results
Most Pleasing to the Office-
Punishment VIII Follow.

The kicks that have been registered
in the standard business office by sub
scribers. righteously indignant be-
cause they failed to get their paper,
woa,ld fill one of the 16-page editions.
The carriers get the beneft; they were
scolded. reprimanded, fined and some
of them discharged. but still the COM
plants came in.
The ingenious circulators laio the
source of the trouble TO wind that piew
the papers away, to the snow whicn
covered them up, to dogs that carried
them away and still could not account
for the missing papers. The carriers
protested that the paper was put III
the mail boxes or in accustomed places
and vet when the subscriber looked TOT
IT. his paper was gone; the breakfast
didn't taste right; he got mad at his
wife. boxed the children's ears ana
came down town looking for trouble
and came to the Standard office 10 re-
lieve his feelings.
could to pacify him, gave the irate
subscriber a paper. promised II should
not occur again and sent him nome
happy-until the next morning.
The frequent repetition of this eS-
perience, the fact that the losses came
from one particular route at length
proved TO the satisfaction of the office
that the carriers were not at fauit, put
that some one was Systematically
stealing those papers. and they deter
mined to catch the thief. Chief White
was called into consultation and he
detailed James Duane, who is working
for Officer McMaster. now absent on
leave, to keep a lookout on OAK street
where the complaints had been thick
est.
Oficer Duane took a concealed sta
ton and shortly after the carrier trav
ersed the street he saw a young FELLOW
emerge from a house at the corner o.
Fourth and Oak, and walk up thu
street, stopping at DIR. Rockefeller
DR.. Leisers, and other houses on thu
street, picking up papers. The offlcel
started in pursuit, but a gate clicked
and gave warning; the thief heard 4
and began a retreat, dropping papers
as he went but Duane caught him a:
he was returning to the house anC
placed him under arrest.
The prisoner was a lad of II or Il
years of age, and II is supposed ha:
made a custom of getting Standards IL
this manner to sell. He gave his nam'
as John Brown. He is an adopted sol
of r. r. Denfie. family who recent.
came to Anaconda from Canada.
Owing TO the absence of Carrie
Henry Taylor from the city. the pris
oner was not given hearing yesterda.
but will be arraigned before Judg
Fitzgerald on Monday.
officer Duane was paid $40, the stand
ing reward which the Standard give
for the arrest of any one caught steal
ing the paper. The prisoner will b
prosecuted to the full extent of the Law
and his fate should be a warning I
those who are making like practices 1
other cities throughout the state. TIL
Standard cannot furnish each reade
with a burglar proof safe, but IL doe
guarantee that every subscriber sha
receive his paper promptly and regu
larly. and any interference with ths
system will be checked and punished a
far as II is able, either to employees {
violators of the law.