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Women Dragged FromMiscreantWho Eludes Policel3 of Miin Itli fVciiHnrf.Tnia—SoAon ln**tanros Arc He* port Off.I^urinc- th«» day« »lt;»vpn woinenha\p rpporipd to tlte pol?j r that they ,• I■ hftTP hern poHpd nut of h\ a manw\\o rnaohpd thininrh the nlndn^ after ,Sr roniovina the arrppn. ilurina the Cj narly morning: houi-f*. many of whom, hnvo bpon «lig;htly Injured h.\’ ronitng Into nontnrl vtth projections of the bed or the floor.Rir.c'p last Sntiirday night the police !m Ihave bnen working in sgunds in tha res td‘=‘nre ser-tloti in an offorl to capttire i the man. im{ thus far have been un-sucres.sful. Kflst night the patrol wagon loaded with oflh era was dis-patche«I to No. Ill North Sergeant ave-Inu'\ frnm where Mrs. K. Ft. Trimhle re- j ported havltig watched a strange manIwnnde’tnc atout the ln)use and acting st»spicu)usly for almost an hour, Kvci-y effort to find the fellow was unavailingKarly yo'-’terday iTiorning a ninn work- !i i:ig at a screen on the second floor of | j thr rosdicnre of C’harles Meeker at :J 1 welfth and I’earl streets, was disco'eied lt;by Mrs. Meeker, wlm screamed, frighten- j ^ ing him jnvny. The screen had been cut ! and ready to remove. An ln\-estigatlo?t |, later revealed several burned matvh«'s on | p; ■ a rna»- porch, but so far as could bd j loaMied nothing of value was taken. ;Attornry W . I.. Aaron of No. 1114 Hyers p ' a\eiiue reported to the pollcf last Tues-day night that a woman of the neighbor- j hood, whose name he ♦•efused to dix ulge. , had been pulled out of bed by n man who ‘ th*ufii his hand fitrougit tlie window . after removing the screen. Her hiisbaml fl wii« also in bed, but this seentingly made i no difference. NVhen he had accomplished his desire the man laughed loudly and clisappea red.A w’oman resident of \N'esi Seventh street, whose name the police refuse to j h( make known, reported last Sunday that id .«he had been dragge.l from bed wldle , vlt; asleep near an open window Saturday C night. Tn this in.‘^tance there was not)Mf!screen, and the bed was so clm^e to the !window that the man reached in as he t stood the ground. This woman w'os ' badly brui.«ed by coming suddenly in con- ' tact with a hard-w’ood floor. i ^'The police also declare (hat another ; report was forthcotning from Seventeenth street and Moffet avenue. Flere. however, a.*: soon as w’hat was de.scribed as a b'.g i rf clammy hand took hold of the. sleeping j woman s foot she awoke and .screamedso loudly that the man ran away.I’rom Ccp.jfor avenue .«till anotite?' report has been made. Karly yesterday ;morning a -creen was removed from one St of the windows on the ground floor, pjblt;frr\(1(after which the man entered, and, reaching rnder the coverlets of a bed. In which a man and hi« wife were si'-eplng. took hold of ore of the la'ter's feet and started drCigging hoc out when she aw'oKe. The marv^ jumped through the window’ and dl.^apreai’ed. ; ^ •F/r»raged h:r»bend.'« are R'^-sisiing the ^ m police in their, wo’-k. l.ast night a part?- ; ffof .se\en residents of the ^'icinlt?■ of | fe 'Twelfth and f’earl •5treet« patrolled the ; streel.s until carl?- this morning, hut saw ' no one w’hom they suspected of tlie an- i no?aiice. N'igilance socieMe^^ are said to being »rgani7.f.d b- men throiigliout the western section ..f the cif?-. whose duty it will he to patrol the streets In quest of any su.spicioiis looking strangers.'t'he police think they know who the | man is. hut reftise to discu.«.= the qu'^s- | rjon at any lengtti. H ha.= been learned, | liowever. lhai a man who some time ago wa.- ai routed fo* cjnidar offense.^ and .«en-tonced to Jail, recentb was released, and (111dlreit is thfught to he he who ha.« resumedhi.s uld practices.The fellow. whoe\-er he is. evifleptiy know*- what h* i.s about, as he alwavsSttilpicks »mt windows near which the beds Iare situated, i'suall?- be reache.c in from j the oul.side, but in no few 1n.«iances lie I has been know lo enter and operate from jthe Ins’de. So fer as has learned he has jmade no effort to steal, }A «
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Jun 23, 1910
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