The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-16
TRICKS OF THIEVES.
Not Always Successful in Securing

London, were clearly seen by a police man sitting behind him. This was the case, although the man was covered by a newspaper. The policeman saw the theft reflected in the shop windows passed by the vehicle and as a result the pickpocket obtained six months imprisonment.
 very ingenious trick employed by pOachers is that of leaving an end of 8 candle burning in a saucer of water in the bedroom. This usually is so ar- ranged that the candle will sputter out at about ten o'clock, just as if it had been extinguished and the man re- tired for the night. This ruse if often employed by poachers who discover that the keepers are watching the house for signs of the poacher leaving. In very many cases the gamekeeper does not discover that the candle could go out without any human agency.
 A very curious course was adopted by Burnley man who had illicitly en- tered Wdellirg house while the in- mates were shopping. He was seen leaving the yard by woman who lived across the way. The man, seeing that he was noticed, leaned on the wall with surprising nonchalance, and looked up into the sky, as though sec ing if there were any signs of the abatement of a heavy shower. The woman asked what he wanted, but the ! housebreaker totally disregarded the question. He simply remarked: Its raining hard" However, he was ar rested some little time after.
 Houses have been broken into in broad daylight in Shrewsbury during the absence of the householders. A considerable amount of jewelry and money was taken from one house, from which two men were seen to leave by the front door. They were clever enough to raise their hats, as though lowing to somebody at the window of the house.
 Sometimes the police are not so clev- CT as they might be. Four men deter mined to rob a Putnam tavern a short time ago, and the police laid a trap for them. At night a detective inspector and constables occupied the house, but, | absurd as 1t may seem, they forgot to turn out the lights The burglars duly arrived at two o'clock, but they found the place ablaze with lights, and also noticed one of the watchers peering out of the front door Therefore the wise burglars withdrew, and decided not to proceed further in the adven- ture. The men returned, however, a week later, and this time they were captured.
 The police wished to arrest two men l who were lying in the hold of barge off Brentford. Accordingly the off, cers asked the men to Come up and be arrested" but the thieves, instead of complying, returned the cordial | counter invitation to the police to Come down and join them." Natu-
 rally, this was not easy, for the ser geant commanding the besiegers had 1 recourse to very simple but ingenious stratagem. He noticed that the men below had kindled a fire, so he told one of the men to fetch him tile The sergeant then placed the tile carefully over the barge's funnel and the invest ing force simply stood around careless ly in order to await developments l AAS odSpCSt0 SLdySu DSIOM uItll Lu6y' were half suffocated by smoke, when
 they had to stumble up on deck and surrender to the grinning besiegers. There are two men who are well | known to the police who are clever ex- pert ladder thieves. They were cecent- ly arrested and placed in custody at Winchester. Their method is to select | house by day and make arrange | ments and see that there Is a ladder about. In the evening they return to l the house when the inhabitants are at | dinner. Then they take the ladder to the back part of the premises and raise it to a first floor window. Their practice is always to work from the 1 top part of house. When they have ! made these arrangements the next thing they do is to go down stairs, l wedge the door where thea residents are having dinner, lock themselves in the room up stairs and ransack it.. | Sometimes they work with rope lad
 ders which they make themselves. There have been several examples lately of criminals run to earth simply l by leaving gnger prints upon the glass | of windows. By means of finger prints the police were able to trace the bur- 1 glars who stole five thousand pounds
 worth of jewelry from Conduit street, Regent street. The arrest in this case
 was effected in very clever manner. | As daylight was appearing a milkman
 was seen going down the street where the criminals lived. He was attired in | the usual glazed hat, and carried the usual money pouch and milk bucket with cans around the side. When he
 arrived at the door of the criminals s
 house he shouted, Milk, oh!' but the
 minute the door was opened he rushed in, and four other milkmen, who were disguised detectives, followed him. | Together the detectives mounted the 1 stairway to the bedroom.
 In each case the man was found in
 bed and in one or two instances he was
 asleep, but was awakened by hand
 on his shoulder with the intimation 1 that he was under arrest.
 It may be the case before long that | burglars will not merely have to wear | gloves. but they will have to abandon
 wearing trousers. A man was tried at
 Longton some time ago for breaking l into the Old Ryoebuck Inn. The only
 evidence against him was an impress
 sion taken of the seat of his corduroy | trousers. This impression correspond l a5 nyar+1v with an impression left in