Thief

Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief--a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed the thief, helped him skim the cream after he jimmied the bottles.

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