Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-19
NAVE OF CRIME
ROLLS OVER CITY
,oco Men. Holdups, Saiecrack-
srs and Thieves Busy Plying
Their Trade.
.Ou8 JOBS" THURSDAY NIGHT
-, Gang Apparently Employs Wom-
on Lookout Judging by
High Heclprints.

..vo Of crime that has rolled
sam Lake city with tho coming or
H s.,tber delugcd tho town with an
0'.. - safe cracking Job, a hoid-up'
A'''' ,,.o burrlarios. Thursday night
~. ,,ears that the ''yeggs' are work.
- Win a woman as lookout as inc
~ o-ints OF hlgh-heeled French slip
u'T ,,.re discovered this morning IN
n lid earth OF the street In front
mo Anheuscr-Busch Brewing COM
-. ONCE and store house at bs1
70 Fourth West street, where a
F- ,s.d to break open the safe. but
la SUE attempted safe cracking job was
lseoyered until this morning. Wnch
~ olson, Jr.. son OF ono OF the An
49, busch local agents. opehcd inc
'e,e Il appears that inc geksS
h,,ke open a window on the sue v" -, wy.
py,i1,ns lesdindg into the office. They
~ my trace but two large rulrond
i'l.n, Minis. The combination knob
80 vas smashed to pieces with
'- 800 hammer, and the ycggs then
10 ,nnrh the lock IN order 10 make
We ,n,biers fam back. Just outside
ulo .'..ins,,c we're the prints OF Elf
on 1891 French heels, bearing the
li - IMPRESSION OF brass plates. The
80 M a horse and light buggy that
,rele drawn up close also appeared.
uEELPRlNTs TRACED.
rs. prnls Of the French heels were
trt,ed from the road up to the window,
ma careful measurement showed thal
ma person wearing them took extraor-
dinarly long strides This would lndi-
rst, that The lookout II it was o
woman. had watched IN the road, ana
i,, somebody approaching had run
hi h the window and warned the
,oeps Who Immediately stopped their
ropt and without taking the precau-
don Of grabbing the coupling pins,
made OF IN the horse buggy as fast as
possible
Another theory. which involves an
ia situation. Is that one OF the ycggs.
nrobsblv a small man with little feet
banned the woman's slippers as
.brnd" as d Is hard TO conceive OF
woman taking such long steps as the
measurement OF the footprints shows
we're taken BY the lookout"
The police are at sea, ana the on
franc. OF a woman confederate II II Is
a woman. complexities matters consid-
eably
The Anheuscr- Busch office would
have proved OF small benefit TO the
yeggs nj any rate. because little money
4 kept in tho safe. as the cash IS
bsased every day and what remains IS
carried home by one OF the agents or
clerks
ROBBERS SURPRISED.
The fact that the veggs knocked the
combination knot off, and started TO
punch the lock q, make the tumblers
fall back, but quiz suddenly indicates
that they must have been surprised,
and that the person who wore the
"Eael tower" heeled shoes ran up 10
DE window and warned them.
The agents, Lytle and Olson, report
hat nothing was stolen.
HAULED AWAY GROCERIES.
Tho police are alss working on an
other job Burglars deliberately
lacked a wagon up 10 the salt Palace
grocery store, al $50 south State street,
d which l.. Nathan Is proprietor.
Thursday night or early this morning.
ma loaded IN more than 500 worth of
.y goods, canned goods and -four The
hleves broke In through the warehouse
n tho rear OF the store by breaking
m the lock They mashed through
panel OF the door between the ware
house and the store. and crawled
through They left no trace.
Another job that IS puzzling the po-
lice Is The burglary OF the Twenty-sec-
o'd Ward Cooperative store at $50
west Fourth North street. Thursday
night when the robbers satisfied them
selves by packing away a large bundle
ei candles and cigarettes
SALOON HOLD-UP.
me hold-up committed Thursday
nsal bears all OF the ear marks OF the
l,n' mat have been done recently by
uIee young thugs While Nick Druse.
ue bartender, was In the ice box. three
els men, wearing handkerchief over
etF faces, walked into the Warm
s.nngs saloon. on north Second West
Me'i opposite ST. Marks hospital. a
aOs after ~ O'Clock. and held up A.
Aargetts the proprietor aud eight
I" IN me card room, securing In an
tog A9o No trace has been found of
ne hold-ups.