Pawnshop Unit

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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>To Keep Tabs on Pawnshops</strong><strong><br /></strong><strong>Col. Swann Once Law Regarding Daily Reports of Deals</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">To help the police keep tabs on secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers who by stolen goods, Col. Sherlock Swann, President of the Board of Police Commissioners, will have introduced into the next Legislature a bill compelling Three-Ball Experts to make daily reports to the police Headquarters their purchases of valuables. Laws like this are in existence in nearly every other city.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">“It is very important,” said Col. Swann yesterday, “that we have such a law in Baltimore. I do not say this simply because other cities have it, but only because it is necessary to keep tabs on stolen articles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"I hope that when the bill is introduced at the coming Legislature it will pass, for it will be of great help to our department. Such a law affords the police the opportunity to recover the stolen property if the thieves are not caught. “Marshall Farnan warmly approved of the idea. "It's a necessity," said the Marshal. "To do good work we have to be able to date, and we should, by all means, have a system of knowing what jewelry is bought by secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers."</span></p>
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