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The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-30

Mr.. Jno w. Hardy, well-known Den
yer citizen, connected with the office
of U. S. Senator L. c. Phipps in Wash
ington, D. c., arrived here Monday to
visit with his family and friends until
about Dec. 1. Mr.. Hardy, though much
in love with Washington, never misses
an opportunity to return to Colorado
and her delightful climate.
We extend a cordial invitation to
the public to hear Elder w. II. Green
of Detroit, Mich, at the Seventh Day
Adventist Church, Sunday evening at
Z 40. He is a noted speaker and
has travelled extensively. He was for
torney. He is now secretary of the
Colored Department of the Seventh
Day Adventists. He has message
for you. Don't forget the place and
the date-the Seventh Day Adventist
CURTIS NJ. HARRIS, the popular
funeral director, who generally spends
the summer season at Estes Park, re-
turned this week with an appearance
of superb health. Mr.. Harris again
receives the usual right hearty well
come from his friends and the smiles
of Mrs Harris can be more imagined
than described after allowing her
other half an absence of three
months.
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the Nimble Shopfter Developed in Christmas Crowds

and Manufacturers Association, by
which the town is well covered. The
merchants pay emphatic tribute to
the protection given them by the po-
lice department, pointing out that
they have to employ fewer store de-
tectives here than is done by trades
men in other large cities.
MEN and women are used as store
At1 detectives. More women are en-
ployed this year than ever before.
The merchants have engaged those
best trained In the work, who have
had years Of experience in trailing
crooks. All the large stores have
their own detectives and the associa-
tion furnishes others. Sometimes q
detective works all over the store:
sometimes he covers several small
stores in one block: sometimes he
follows a suspect from store to store.
Again. a detective is employed for
just one floor or department.
The Importance Of this problem of
guarding against the light-fngered
gentry is emphasized by the fact that
each year the National Association Of
Retail Secretaries takes up this sub
ject as the most important business
of the annual conference. The men,
bers check up on the various schemes
and methods and tricks worked in
other cities.
The happer type is ono Of the most
dangerous with which merchants have
had to contend. The roll-top stock
Ing afforded a ready hiding place for
many small articles surreptitiously
taken. The vivacity characteristic of
this type kept clerks engrossed. and,
as tho "happers'' usually travelled in
pairs or small groups. one could hold
the attention of the clerk while an
other secreted the stolen articles.
In a prominent F street store a
detective suspected such a group.
When taken to a private room and
forced to pull down her stockings,
one girl, not over twenty years Of age,
was found to have hidden sticks of
chewing gum, q patent lead pencil, a
package of hair nets, a bottle OF
cologne and several cheap rings.
The coming Of longer skirts is an
added menace for the storekeepers,
especially these days when customers
crowd at the counters. A woman de-
tsetive In one Of the largest depart.
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their glasses keep a close watch for
| the lion.
Soon we heard the dogs again.
They were coming towards US.
could tell by the sound of their voices
that the lion was up and they were
baying at him as he ran, apparently
unable to stop him.
| A small hill that covered about an
acre of ground stood just out in front
of us. 1t was covered with huge
powders. some nearly as large as a
house. and out of the center grew
euphorbia tree. I at once turned to
Mr.. Woosman and said: There is no
use laying the dogs on again; that is
the place the lion is making for" We
could see from the rise where we
stood that the plains were perfectly
open for miles and this hill furnished
the only bit of cover that could be
seen anywhere. We advanced a little
near and Mr.. Woosman took charge
of the proceedings. He divided the
men into squads of two or three and
assigned places for them to stand out
nearly one-fourth of a mile from the
! hill and in such positions as almost
to surround it. Every direction was
well guarded except that from which
the lion had come, and Roy Stewart
and myself went straight up to the
hill and from that direction with the
| dogs. AS we came up to the hill We
sent the dogs in, throwing stones in
among the powders as an extra in
ducement for them to go in and hunt.
THav oil Anxv fr<o he nd hA-
gan searching.
There was one long rock that ap-
peared to run all the way across and
six or eight feet high. 1t acted as a
barrier and none of the dogs could
get over or under 1t.
One Of them. however, found an
opening in some way and got past it,
He had no sooner done SO than he
began barking.
l recognized the voice as belonging
to a big, rangy. white hound called
Champion. 1t was a litter brother to
Bellman and Chorister.
The other dogs were running up
and down the rock: some of them
were jumping for the top, only to fall
back again. The one dog continued
no other sound was heard. At length
We set down our guns and began pick
ing the dogs up in our arms and lift
ing them to the top of the rock. -
soon as put down they disappeared
on the other side and promptly Join
i ed Champion in barking, but no other
sound was heard.
! AS we kept passing up reinforce
ments. the barking increased. Each
of US had a dog in his arms, lifting
it to the top. when the lion let out
a below that would put any bull to
shame, at the same time making a
rush. and strangely enough came out
our way. almost knocking the dogs
! out of our arms.
Its huge paws almost struck US "a
the face as it went clear over US, ami
the dogs came tumbling over arter
it. The lion swung around the pile
of rocks and started west. Mr.. Wooo-
man and his companion got several
shots at the animal, but it surely was
a flying target and none OF their shots
took effect. The lion then turned to
the north. the very direction whence
it had come. and the only direction
left unguarded. Stewart and I each
had two long shots with our Express
rifles. and then my gunbearer
promptly handed me my $50 Bigby
Mauser.
Copyright. 1927
Another article in this series will
apnear in peYf SUNDAYS Star
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posed by a detective in big F street
store. Articles had been missed at
several counters-mostly small arti-
cles-and a certain extremely we'll
dressed woman was under suspicion
and closely watched. This woman
had been searched in one store and
nothing found. The detective who
, was foiled at that store trailed the
, woman and passed the tip to a woman
detective in another store. Finally
she was observed to knock two silver
thimbles from a showcase. She stoop-
ed and returned one. The sharp eyes
of the woman detective were aided
by a vagrant ray of sunshine which
glinted OF the other thimble as 1t
was secreted under the instep of the
shoplifters shoe. The detective re-
! moved the shoe and found a wad of
gum jammed in against the high heel
SO that it would pick up such small
artjciss.
DCT it is not only in the large
- stores where expensive goods are
displayed that these shoplifters work,
nor is it only small articles that are
taken. The 1--we and ten cent stores
probably suffer as much, If not more,
than the larger department stores. the
detectives report. Men have been seen
to drop articles down inside their COL
lars. Two men working together
have been arrested. One would stand
at a counter, while another, passing
casually by or ostensibly with hand
resting across his shoulder. would de-
posit some article inside the others
collar.
It is amusing what some people will
try to steal. A man in a five and
ten cent store the other day was
caught showing q couple of fve-cent
flags up his coat sleeve. In another
store q very well dressed man, wear
ing an imported overcoat. had three
expensive walkin canes hooked into
the armhole Of his coat on the inside
and under his arm. Helping them
selves to shoelaces and toothbrushes
in q five and ten cent store seems
to be a mania. A colored woman was
found with an assortment of seven
different kinds Of shoelaces tucked
into the top of her stocking, and she
was wearing buttoned shoes.
Arwoman wearing cape or q dol
man, II her actiops are in any way
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"HERE is a legion of light-fin-
gered gentry among us again.
Men and women. They have
woefully misjudged the ages
old spirit OF peace on earth, good
will toward men," as meaning that
they can go about helping themselves
to whatever pleases their fancy with
out so much as 'by your leave" to the
lightful owners.
The shoplifter and the pickpocket
are here again in numbers. plying
their annual holiday trade of taking
everything they can get away with.
The most adroit prestidigitation,
inventive genius worthy of better
cause, tireless waiting. mastery or
Eanization and other tests Of mem
tality, expert skill and psychology
are displayed by these tricksters to an
amazing extent-so much so that
those who study their methods Won
der why they work outside the pale
of the law and as leeches on human
society, when the same talent. skill
and study could make them successful
in legitimate enterprise.
Against the evil astuteness and
versatility of these crooks is massed
an equally clever. if not superior.
array of men and women who have
devoted years to careful observation
and study of the shoplifter and pick
pocket. This opposing force works
in the interest of organized society
for the protection Of the rightful
owners and the public.
when Greek meets Greek"-and
the detectives are now on the winning
side.
The throngs of well intentioned
Christmas shoppers. crowding the
stores to do their buying early. little
realize the strain upon the merchants
to combat the shoplifting evil. nor
are they sufficiently awake to the
personal menace to themselves from
the pickpocket. It has been found
necessary to have special forces in
the stores employed by three agen-
cies-the stores themselves, the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
tion and the police department. This
is done for the protection not only Of
the stores themselves but the public
as we'll.
Three weeks ago a special Christ
mas season detective protection serv-
,ies was established by the Merchants
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We were living at this time at
Forest Glen. about three miles out OF
Nairobi. Roy Stewart. an American
from Mississippi, who brought over
the second pack of dogs. was staying
with me at the time. and 1 took him
along to help handle the dogs.
| When we arrived at Nairobi sta
tion we found Mr.. Bowker was to be
one of the party. He had six or eight
airedales, and 1t proved to be most
fortunate that he brought them along
When all of the parry arrived there
were sixteen white men. with Mr.
with two or three white hunters and
nine X. A. RS tking's African Rifies)
They were captains of the colored
| troops.
| Mr.. Bowker, Roy Stewart and my
self, and about seventy-five native
| porters for beating out reed beds and
to do general work around camp
completed the party.
| We arrived at Simba station and
next morning hunted to the north
There were many large reed beds
lions to lie up by day. I did not take
out the hounds that day. as thought
i best to save them until we could To-
cate the particular lion that we were
after. We put in the entire day work.
ing likely places. but found no lion.
The next day Stewart and I went to
the car for the hounds in his pack.
AS fast as I handed one out he was
put on a lead and held by one of the
boys. l picked pair of three-quarter-
bred English hounds to hit OF the
Chorister. They had had a lot of ex-
perfence and trailed we'll; were
broken from running all kinds of
game except lion and leopard and
would open on nothing else.
When the good fighting dogs were
in and fighting. they would fight we'll
also, but without the other dogs they
could not be depended upon.
The same might be said of all the
dogs we had with us. and l now
wished for some of the mainstays that
had been left at home. 1 was in
hopes, however, that some of the aire-
lacking in the way of fighting dogs.
led Bellman and Chorister about
ten yards past the table where we had
eaten breakfast. 1 saw that they
were making game and turned them
loose.
I could see that they were on the
! trail of the lion. 20 we began turning
in the other dogs, one at Q time. As
they disappeared over a rise they
were strung out in a long line, and
every dog giving tongue freely. The
airedales were turned in also and they
bounded along with the hounds. 1t
was a new game for them and they
strained every muscle to reach the
lead, and when they bounded out in
front and no game was in sight they
could not make out what it was all
about and several returned to their
master. Two or three, however. con-
tinued on with the hounds.
I'VE were now following as fast as
w we could. But following a pack
of hounds on foot is uphill work. very
uncertain and unsatisfactory. The
hounds were rapidly drawing away
from US and the sound of their voices
became fainter and fainter until we
| could hear them no more. Fourteen
Of the sixteen hunters were following
! the dogs. while two Kings African
Riflemen had been sent to a big hill
| that stood out in the plains about five
miles to the southwest of US They
| were to climb to the top and with
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! out of the ordinary. is one of the first
to attract the attention of the ex-
! perienced store detective. He spots
| her when she comes into the store
: and keep an eye on her until he is
satisfied that her business there Is
, legitimate. If she happens to daily
too long and too furtively over any
| object, he in the guise of floorwalker.
walks up suavely and politely and
asks il she wishes to be served. He
| can generally size her up during the
short conversation that ensues. If he
still continues suspicious he follows
| in the wake of her course until he is
satisfied that the cape wearer Is a
! legitimate patron of the store.
Detective Sergeant Robert Living
f. ston at headquarters has been spe-
cializing for years on shoplifters:
When there is any hurry call from a
store. 1t is generally he and his part
ner. Patrick O'Brien. who respond.
by long experience" declared Liv-
ingston yesterday. in discussing vari-
Gus phases of shoplifting, I'VE have
learned that the woman wearing 4
cape or dolman is a potential shop
litter. If she wishes, she can conceal
items even as large as a dress be-
meath the inner folds Of her cape and
make her way quietly out of the store
| without attracting any attention.
We always watch such persons care
I, fully IL our attention is called to
| their movements in any extraordinary
manner.
Then, too. there are many shop
lifters who have adopted the shopping
bag as a method of making away
with the spoils of their work. We
have to keep a close eye on shopping
bags.
All this does not mean, though,
that any woman who wears a cape or
dolman or who carries a shopping
bag is shadowed by police or detec-
| tives every time she enters a store.
We only recognize such items as part
OF the equipment we have found shop.
/ lifters using in the past, and natu-
rally we feel that shoplifters are
continuing to use them, unless they
have changed their habits since yes
terday."
Police. few years ago, brought
into headquarters a woman who had
a specially made cape, with pockets
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upon the lion picked up the man
again and dragged him farther away
The next morning the natives re-
mains were found by the river one
fourth of mile from where the
tragedy began. The chest was en-
tirely eaten away. I have a photo
graph of the dead man and it is
gruesome sight indeed.
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ment stores the other day caught q
woman who had sewed on the inside
Of her skirt q band Of fish hooks.
This particular woman used almost
exclusively the old trick of dropping
an article to the door. often dropping
two, and then ostentatiously replao-
ing one. BY q deft movement she
would reach under her dress and hook
some light article, such rs q handker-
chief, onto one Of these hooks. The
woman caught bore an excellent repu-
tation, but when stripped of her ill-
gotten goods it was found that she
had in this way collected from i've
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jewelry was displayed. The detective
explained that some nose powderers
are 50 light-fngered and adroit that
as they drop q powder pun back in
the bosom Of a dress they frequently
drop with it a necklace or q pair Of
gloves or a pair Of silk stockings.
Generally it Is the young women
who do not need to steal, who have
allowances and who do not work for
a living who spend much Of their
time going from one store to another
helping themselves. the detectives say.
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taken, as the bite OF these flies is
fatal to domestic animals. 1 said l
would be pleased to go with a dozen
or more dogs, but that l would not
want to take the best dogs. l did
not want to expose them to the fly,
and I would not think of running
them after lions unless was well
mounted, so as to keep with them.
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Of natives that were sitting under
the stations light, grabbed a man and
made away with him. He went only
q few yards across the track. when
he began to devour the man. and
every time any one ventured upon the
track he would growl as he fed.
All those in camp who had guns
began firing into the grass, where
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THIS fearful catastrophe was the
officials to bestir themselves and Or
ganize hunt to exterminate the man.
eater. Mr.. Woosman. the head game
ranger, asked me If l would go on
the hunt with the Paul Rainey hounds.
He said that the tsetse fly was
prevalent and horses could not be
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by Err SHELLEY.
Missiasfppi Hunter.
ME African lion. from time i'm
memorial. has been the bitter
asf f,,,. NJ tho native rohhinV

ME African lion, from time i'm
memorial. has been the bitter
est foe OF the native. robbing
him Of his domestic animals;
despoiling him of his game. which he
had killed only after long. arduous
and perilous e1ertion: and ever prone
to diacard all other foods In favor of
human flesh. Bold raids on camps.
and ccasionally even on villages, fol-
low. once the lion has acquired this
taste.
The love of human flesh is an ac-
quifed taste. A lion will battle a man
to seize his horse or cattle.
In the cemetery at Nairobi lie the
bodies of twenty-eight white men.
experienced hunters, who sought to
rid the country about of the terror Of
the lions Not one of the twenty
eight was even partly devoured. All.
horribly mangled and clawed. had died
Of their wounds in the hospital.
Famished or given repeated easy
opportunity to acquire the taste, the
lion Is unable to resist its desire and
will go to desperate lengths for hu-
man flesh.
their dead unburied often gives this
opportunity. In large construction
work. such as the building of the
Uganda railroad. many natives are
employed and deaths number two or
three day.
Two young male lions followed the
line of railway construction and were
bountifully fed on dead natives. But
at length. as work on the line neared
completion. moro and more of the
men were sent to their homes. and
when natural deaths became less fire.
quent the lions became ravenous for
the taste of human flesh. Eventually.
driven desperate by hunger, they kill
ed ma ative. That was the beginning
of series of raids in which the
beasts slew. carried OF and devoured
man after man.
4 T last the two man-eaters got so
actually broke down all barriers and
continued to carry away the men. as
If no protection had been made
against them.
Eventually they succeeded in bring
ing the railroad work to q complete
standstill.
All of this time. Col. Patterson, in
charge of the work, spent night after
night sitting up In an endeavor to
shoot them. They seemed to know
his plans. Whenever he sat up to
wait for them at one camp they
always appeared at another.
1t seemed no obstacle could prevent
every night.
Several military and naval officers
were sent to Col. Patterson's assist
ance and sat up many nights, but
the lions continued to get away with
the men. Things continually grew
worse. Not night passed that the
screaming Of some unfortunate indi-
yidual did not rend the night air.
At length the entire lot of workmen
went to Col. Patterson and told him
that they had come to work for
the government, but not to furnish
food for the lions. They left by hun
dreds. The few who remained slept
on top of the water tank. roofs and
girders.
\ trap of railroad irons and heavy
wooden sleepers was built and so de- |
vised that when the lion entered and
stepped on portion of the floor 1t |
would act as a spring and the door |
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AIR RYAAL. superintendent of po-
lNl lice, British East Africa, with
two friends. Mr.. Huebner and Mr..
Parenti, in Mr.. Ryaars special car,
came to hunt the man-eater.
The car was switched of on a sid
ing. They sat on watch until it grew
late, and. as no sign of the lion was
seen or heard, they retired for the
night.
Mr.. Parenti made his bed on the
floor. Mr.. Ryaal took the lower berth
and Mr.. Huebner took the upper.
Shortly after they retired the lion
stealthily crept up on the steps that
were at the end of the car.
His enormous weight made the car
tilt to one side. The door was a slid
ing one. opening and closing on roll
ers. The lion got his paws into the
crack, pulled the door open and walk
ed in. AS he walked inside, the car.
in righting itself, caused the door to
slide back.
He stood with his fore feet on top
Of the man on the floor and reached
up In the bunk and grabbed Mr.. Ryaal
in his mouth. and in turning around
found the door closed. He crashed
through the window with the man in his
mouth. tearing the sash and frame COM
pletely out.
He went only short distance
away. and, to make the affair more
horrible, began eating and crunching
bones within hearing Of those In the
car. Many shots were fired into the
bushes close to him. but he fed on
with perfect Indifference.
A few days later this lion was
caught In a trap and shot.
Officials of the government later
received word that there was a man
eating lion near Simba station.
"Simba" is a Swahili word meaning
lion, and there were many in that
vicinity. There was a large camp of
Kavirondo natives, several hundred in
all, cutting wood for the Uganda rail-
way. Their camps were about three
or four miles from the station and
it was here that the lion was commit
titng most of its depredations.
The government soon received
second notice that six or seven men
had been taken in the last ten days.
About this time a wealthy Indian
prince, who was out on hunting trip.
came in to Simba station and camped.
Shortly after dark, and before all
had retired, a lion sprang into a circle
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Love of Human Flesh Is an Acquired Taste
Among These Giant Cats-When Once De-
veloped, Impels Animal to Go to Desperate
Ieneths-Natives Leave Their Dead Unburied.

would close. A partition was built
through the center Of the trap and
two Sepoys were placed behind the
partition with Martini rifles and
plenty of ammunition.
They not only acted as bait to en-
tice the lions to enter. but were ex-
pected to shoot them should they be
caught in the trap.
One of the lions one night entered.
The Sepoys were so desperately
frightened at first that they dared not
shoot until one of the white men on
watch in another place shouted en-
courasement to them.
When they finally mustered up
enough courage they fired several
shots. but only succeeded in blowing
of one of the bars from the door, SO
that the man-eater escaped only
slightly wounded.
Another man-eating lion turned up
at a small station on the Uganda rail-
way called Kimama. 1t killed many
members Of the railroad staff. and on
several occasions romped up and down
the stations platform, and even
climbed on top Of the station and
tried to tear the corrugated iron from
the roof.
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ercan With Fighting Dogs Makes War on African MaEater

Dogs Trained for First Time in History to
Fight Lions, in Hope of Putting an End to
Horror of Nairobi and Saving Hundreds of
Human Beings from Death
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