Arizona republican., 1913-06-01
LONDON POLICE
 AID CRIMINALS
Conspiracy is Discovered Where Uniformed Off cers Have Helped Thieves and Even Turned to Steal ing Themselves
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

day. from thlS tflNlal circumstance have resulted disclosures Of an aIi- ance between certain uniformed members of the London police force and thieves and hiGhWaymen under which the police have not only aided the thieves. but have actually turned thieves themselves in their hours off duty.
 Almost every London householder has been in the habit of calling up the police department on the eve of his vacation to ask nim to guard his unoccupied home Consequently the department has an enormous list If unoccupied houses. Che numbers of these houses are gwen the mem- 3ers of the force with instructions to watch for burglars.
 Recently there has been an cpl demic of burglaries in the outlying residential section of the city. Prac- ticany all the footed houses were homes of persons away on vacation who had notified the department of their plans Very few of the burg lars have been caught; in fact, the patrOlmen on the beat where the burglaries occurred invariably re- ported that they had seen no sus- pected characters in the neiShbor- hood. To make the problem still more difficult. the burglaries WeIe seldom discovered until weeks after wards when the owners returned nome.
 X .newsboy. delivering his papers
 in the thief ridden section of the sub urbs. saw a man climb over the wall of large garden surrounding d mansion that sits back well from the roadway. He had read of the burg laries his suspicious were aroused and he summoned the nearest po- liceman. having telephoned already to the precinct station. Within few minutes d cordon of bobbies and de tectives closed about the mansion.
 Three burglars were captured, red handed: one escaped by climbing the wall and running of the trio cap turcd two were found to be police men; one of them. indeed, the man who did police duty eight hours day on the beat where the mansion was located The noWsboy glmpsed the escaping burglar and asserted that he. too. was policeman The third prisoner was d notorious thief.
 Since the arrest of the burglar policemen an investigation has re-
 
 exceptional. and that the immunity from arrest enjoyed by many London burglars is due to a vide bread alli- ance with the police Reluctantly, the Londoner is abandoning the old GUS tom of notifying the police when he expects to take a vacation. Instead. he is adopting the American habit of joining with his neighbors in employ ing a Watchman. The first instruc- tions given the Watchman are to watch the police.
 It has not Yet been necessary to employ some one to watch the watch man. When that time comes, it is not unlikely that the Londoncr will dispense with his vacation alto gether
 All Great Britain, apparently. is trying to invent a perpetual motion machine-Only Great Britain calls it l a "self-moving engine" The past
 year has ripened a crop of one a week The wires and bones of mod els may be found bleaching in hund-
 reds on the shelves of the patent 1 office IL goes without saying that
 not one shows the slightest inclina- l ton to move itself
 | Varied and often pathetic are the i histories of the inventors Not a few of them have spent the years of
 their prime in the chase of this un-
 attainable will O the wisp. others have dropped thousands of bounds
 in the quest; still others have trailed the quarry into the insane asylums. If all the wasted energy spent in seeking the solution of this problem
 
 channels of endeavor. the patent of flee officials believe there would be
 few problems of mechanicians left today unsOlved
 Professor E. C. Green of the Unit ed States department of agriculture
 is in London preparing for three years stay in the interior of Brazil where he hopes to teach the natives how to raise cotton. Professor Green has been loaned" to the Brazilian government by Washington, and ir his moments of leisure from teaching cotton growing he will collect various totanical and geological specimens for the American government. He believes that Brazil has thg possibility of becoming the greates cotton growing country In the world unless unknown ingredients in tn, soil make it's cultivation on d large scale impracticable. This iis wha ! Professor Green will try to discover for he is convinced that climaticalI! there is no reason why Brazil should ] not raise cotton; also he believe ] the best quality can be grown ther { as soon as the growers understan' = the latest methods of cultivating il
 At the present time the country i producing 100000 bales yearly, no Q enough to keep the mills of Rio q :, Janeiro supplied.
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