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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL - JANUARY 1 1 , 1 9 4 6 % IN CRIME WAV ^ Crimes are happening fast In I Las Vegas and Clark county hut 11 tooth the police department and i the sheriffs are operating on a j I “time’s a-wastix/ . policy and | solving them right now. Thursday one yras solved by one police detective while oth- / ers were investigating a call of which he had no knowledge. First, a burglary at the Union I Pacific rooming house was re- 1 J ported to Chief of Police George ' Thompson and officers were sent to investigate and get finger­prints. A few minutes afterward a call came in from an expert under- | eover operator that a man was 1 attempting to sell a watch under suspicious circumstances and the detective captain hurried to the scene. 1 By Smact maneuvering be­tween the informant and the de- ; teetive, Frank Regan, 20, did not even suspicion the detective and after some conversation, the de­fective asked him where he got (the watch. “Oh it’s mine, it’s an old .'watch.” iounaanon ol knowl- f edge of the fact the same watch ' had been taken from the U. P. | rooming house, the detective | fired back quietly and unob- U trusively, "You know I just i| ^on't think that is your watch." j “Well, dammit, it isn’t,” Regan fjshot back, according to the police l|report. I “That’s what I thought. You I better come along with me,” the j detective replied and Regan now jis sitting in the “Blue Room” j awaiting trial for first degree I burglary after having confessed I his entire crime. . I He told police he had come to I Las Vegas by bus from Salt Lake land began drinking with railroad ? men on Wednesday night. He | went to the U. P. rooming house | to try and get a place to sleep, | but could- not be accommodated ? Discovering that - the rooms ,, there have no locks on them, he w Proceeded quickly to ransack a «few and stole two watches, cig-