Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-26
Thief RANSACKING
OFFICE BUILDINGS
Picks Locks and Then Hunts for
Postage Stamps and
Money.
Prizes INTO EVERY CORNER
Leaves Papers scattered About aud No
Lock Deiics Him Ia Ills
search.

Lock your dcsks
Put all money and postage stamps
IN the safel
one Of the clevercst Of office build
ing sneak thieves Is picking the locks
of offices la the large building and
stealing stamps and money He takes
nothing else.
No lock is too hard for him. No door
or desk seems to be able to defy his
knowledge of locks and his Sit Of high
class burglar tools
He works at night after the ianitors
and scrub women have left the build
ings. When he enters an office he scat
tors maitland valuable papers over the
floors IN his hunt FOR stamps and
money. He has been working right
under the very eyes Of Captain OF De-
tectives Riley Beckstead and his men.
The detective captain says he has the
man spotted who is doing the work
and viii have him In custoday before
night.
The clever thief Is said 10 be- only %
years Of age. lie has been In town
since last August. when he was re-
he first came TO salt Lake, former
chief OF Detectives George sheets met
him on the street. Sheets told him he
would have to be good while ne was
in the city. and the youth. was, until
the recent depredations on the Offices
IA the larger buildings.
\ HEAVY LOSER.
The heaviest loser so far is the Utah
Dental company az 2S6 south Main
street. This place was entered last
night and the thug made away with
gold Filings ana other convertible mat
ter To the amount Of $50 there. The
lock on the door was picked, and IN his
rummage through the offices he scat
tered papers. books. and dentists tools
from one end Of the place 10 the other
In the Utah savings & Trust company
building. the offices OF Van Colt Ant
son anG Ritter were entered some nights
ago and a valuable camGra stolen.
Papers and records were scattered fore
other offices in This buildinE we're en-
tered, but as nothing 81 value was
secured there Is no record al tho police
headquarters
The smooth crook also made visit
tn the Felt building There the Offices
OF the Minneapolis steel company were
entered and nothing secured SO for "a
known At the offices Of the Salt Lake
copper company $50 in stamps were
taken. The same showed Enthusiastically
that he was after money and stamps
alone because he throws other valuable
matter aside.
WORKS VERMONT BUILDING.
The Vermont building IL said by the
police to have been entered from top
to bottom The Offices OF the Beneficial
Life Insurance company were broken
into between closing time Saturday and
10 .fH tor
entered the offices this morning they
found papers and books scattered
around. where the thief had tossed
Them i'm his hunt for stamps ana money
tie secured here $50 in stamps and $50
In money The Offices Of the Inland
crystal salt company were also en-
tered. say the police. besides others in
the building whose names they refuse
10 give out
Clothing is disdaincd by this thief lie
is described az a well dressed individual
and when he has been accosted 10y the
help cleaning up around the ONCE
buildings he has gotten away with some
ready and plausible excuse
liz the outside sections OF the city,
Iurelaries are Of nightly occurrence The
thieves act boldly and the police have
long record of house breaking that
Is seldom made public. CHIEF Barlow
WAS seen today and asked about the
crime wave but he denied any knoWi-
edge of the depredations of the gang
of crooks who sleep by day and Prov
the streets late at night.
The ONCE building thief seems to Ike
hest the upper floors Of the buildings
he enters He walks I'm and makes
his Wav 10 the TOP story and works from
there down. When he hears someone
ne takes refuge Doc one NJ
the laVatories until an danger ~ cap
turp Is passed captain Beckstoad says
he knows the man ne thinks has been
doing the work Is In the city but that
nothing could he done with MIN until
after he had made an outbreaks
In addition To the offices listed above
four offices in the Mercantile block were
entered.