Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-23
BOOMING HOUSES ENTERED BY
 THIEVES
Night Maraudefs Realize Money and Jewelry as Result Of Their Depredat.ors On Three Different Houses.

DOUGLAS. Dec. 22.-(SpeciaI.l- Reports were made this morning tl tne International-America of thre< rooming houses in the city having been entered during the night b, thieves.
 By their operations In these house: the thieves realized an aggregate o about $75 and a gold watch and chain
 The houses where the thefts wert Icommitted last night are the Phoeni,
 rooming house on Twelfth street, ant the Avenue and Cottage hotels on (
 avenue.
 In the Phoenix house the thieves exercised the utmost freedom and
 abandon in going about the house ! Scarcely a room that was occupied was not entered, and when they Jeff
 clothing, letters and papers were scat tered in profusion about the rooms. Some of the Losers.
 A man of the name of Conyers, oc cupying a room at the Phoenix, was . loser to the extent Of $19.20; another man of the name of Dunn missed all
 he had the night before when he was appraised of the fact that thieves had l been in the house, the amount being about S9. Another roomer lost about | s6 and others had stolen from them small sums of money.
 This theft took place prior to , o'clock in the morning, for the land lady ngetting up to look after ht- tie child in the house at that hour found all the doors along the hall open, and, looking into the room of | her son, observed his clothes strewn oyer the floor. She C1ea gave the alarm of burglars and E- that carry hour of the morning most Of the room CTS in the house realized that some one had been in their rooms. The thieves graciously passed up a watch and chain that were lying on table, evidently not being desirous of being burdened with property that could be easily identified. though later in the night they took q watch.
 Other Places Entered.
 After going through the Phoenix the thieves went north on G avenue until the Avenue hotel was reached. They entered that place and ran sacked almost every room in the house, securing g from Jim Long. one of the roomerS, and some small change from another. The clothes Of other roomers were rifled, but the thieves found nothing more of conse- uuence. In this house they failed to get several hundred dollars a tran sient rancher had about him.
 The thieves made their best haul of the night at the Cottage hotel, few doors north of the Avenue. There Walter Harris, a roomer, had stolen from him $25 in cash and gold watch and chain. Other rooms Tn this house were entered but nothing of value taken from them. The landlacy heard some one center the house early in the morning but thinking it was a roomer coming in paid no attention to the noise.
 Reign of Thievery.
 It is evident from the nightly ro- currence of these petit thefts that Douglas has class of people in town that should be gotten rid of, and so determine who they are and then do their duty in the premises is what Is expected of the police and other ohi- cers of the city. This Is, of course. no small task, but by the, number oi watches and other identifable proper ty stolen in the past two weeks the officers are at least afforded some tangible basis upon which to work and a concerted effort upon their part might have the effect of putting to an end so much of this petit crime. With in the past two weeks or therabouts fully a dozen thefts have taken place in Douglas, most of which have been in the center of the city or very near the center. There have probably been others that the Internationai-Ane-ican has not heard of
 The city now has two men working at night One of these Is in the red light district and the other is uptown.
 Marshal Stambaugh was asked this morning by an International-American reporter if a concerted effort was be- ing made to catch up with the gang of thieves that Is working Douglas He said:
 What Police are Doing.
 q have given the police instructions to arrest and give orders to leave town all persons who cannot give al satisfactory account of themselves. or who are otherwise suspicious This has been done right along by the om- cers. am of the opinion that a large amount of this rooming house thtev- cry is being done by men wno are themselves occupants of the houses. They get so they are'wise' to the com ings and going and other personal habits of other roomers and at he] first favorable occasion take advan- tage of this information by going through their clothes
 ~And the public must understand that to prevent these thefts they must close and lock their doors at nigh. That is tho best safeguard against small thefts-"
 Hard Tack, seys Hayhurst
 Deputy SheriR Hayhursf, when| asked for his opinion of a situation that nightly results in some house| being entered by thieves. admitted be| did not know what class of people WIS doing t..
 ''Hoboes, guess,"' he said. "It is