--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1840 to 1841. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 2 number: 1 published: 1840-11-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Look Out for Thieves!!,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 1 (November 1, 1840): 204." printed_title: LOOK OUT FOR THIEVES!! source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n01.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1 start_page: 204 end_page: 204 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1 publication_year: 1840 --- # Look Out for Thieves!! This place has been infested of late with a gang of thieves, insomuch [inasmuch] that property of almost all kinds, has been unsafe unless secured with bolts and bars; cattle and hogs have been made a free booty. The community are awake to ferret them out, and have already made some inroads among them; the measures that are taking, have created a general alarm among the midnight pilagers, and they are making tracks as fast as possible. As it is very possible that some may escape JUSTICE, and palm themselves upon an unsuspecting community, we give this notice as a timely warning, that all may be on the look out. We sincerely hope that all those who escape justice here, will soon be overtaken in their wickedness-ALTON is a suitable place for all such characters.