Bisbee daily review., 1907-12-05
LIGHT FINGERED
ONES IN DOUGLAS
Fowl Thief, Jacket Thief Shoe
Thief and Still Others
Operating,

With the cold weather and the
approach of the holiday season a con-
siderable amount of petit thievery has
occurred within the past few days,
and it is probable that as the winter
advances there will be an increase of
this sort of lawlessness noted. Just
now tie principal offenders are Mex
leans. The officers have made sew
eral arrests con suspicion" OF late of
Mexicans seen with bundles partly
hidden in the folds of their coat In
vestigation each time has proven that
the hidden bundle contained stolen
goods.
stole Two Ducks.
One OF these bundles, stuck way up
a Mexican's back under his coat, con-
tanned two ducks. The Mexican was
picked up by Deputy Sheriff Frank
Clark yesterday, his eagle eye having
spotted a peculiar proturbance on the
form of the Mexican which was re-
mindful of the reformation of hump
back. When accosted and asked about
the bundle the Mexican expressed the
greatest surprise and all of a sudden
developed a state of absent minded
ness that would do credit to a trust
magnate when questioned about his
assets. He not only did not know
where he had gotten the ducks but
did not know when he got them. He
insisted he bought the fowls but as
for details, his mind was a blank. 1t
looked a plain case of petit larceny
cleared a little
Swiped a Jacket.
A lady's jacket, to an intimate de-
scription of which a newspaper man
is not adapted, was plucked from IN
der the coat of a Mexican the other
night by Policeman Lee Thompson.
His name is Aneceto Hernandez and
he was spotted making time down
Tenth street by Officer Bon HIIUuTn.
Thompson was near by anu went III
chase OF him, arresting the man and
recovering the Jacket. 1t is undoubt-
eddy stolen garment. 1t Is a sort
of tan colored affair with browninsh
trimmings.
Mis-mated Shoes Stolen.
Yesterday when Pedro Bojorquez
went to Fleischer's store to have a
pair of new shoes that had come from
that store matched, the pair being OF
| different numbers, Mr.. F1eischer rec
ognized the shoes as belonging to a
| Shipment ne naQ just opened ana none
OF which had been sold. Naturally he
suspected the Mexican who brought
| them in and telephone message to
police headquarters brought Consta-
Bile Shropshire to the store and Bo-
| jorquez was taken into custody and
placed under cash bond of SO. He
made the statement that he bought
/ the shoes from one of three Mexican
boys. They had told him they paid
IS for the shoes but explained that as
they needed the money worse than
the shoes they would let him have the
/ pair for SO, a bargain which was TAX
en- by Bojorquez. His story was In
vestigated and found to be true. The
boys who had sold him the shoes are
the same arrested a few days since
and then released. ana they were
again taken into custody and VIII be
tried today.
i Loses Valuable Saddle.
4 A saddle that he values at $50 was
stolen Saturday night from the iaun
dry wagon OF the International iasn
Idry driven by Tom McDougal. The
wagon was left in the rear Of the
LAUNDRY over night and the saddle wac
in the wagon. The following morning
1.-THE gate leading into the yard wal