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THE CRIME OF THIEVES

Thieves have added incendiarism to their infamous work in East St. Louis, and the militia promptly announced that they would shoot to kill any suspicious persons seen prowling about.

Saturday night after the cyclone the residence of Wm. Mathews, of the Fire Department, on Main street, near Railroad avenue, was entered by thieves, who ransacked the building, taking all small articles of any value. They then fired the building. The Fire Department was immediately summoned by the discharge of carbines by the militia, and arrived on the scene in time to prevent the building being damaged to any great extent.