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WOMAN BATTLES WI J n BURGLAR AND HOLDS HIM UNTIL THE POLICE ARRIVEBetween 8 and 9 o'clock Saturday night, Mr. und Mrs. John Lattish and family, 1820 Kwauneo street, ver'-absent from homo. When their 14-year-old. daughter Marguerite Lattish, her friend, Bertha Circuit and Mrs. William Lattish returned to house from a grocery store, the two girls lighted a lamp and sat down to'read while Mrs. Lattish visited a meat market.The girls believed they heard a noise in the dining room and when Mrs. Lattish came back they proceeded to investigate, Miss Lattish lighting matches and discovering a man behind a chair. An alarm was given and many neighbors turned out and assembled about the house. Mrs. Al-j beret Wheeler bravely entered the house, found the man behind the chuir and she grabbed him. There was a struggle and the man tried hard to tret away, but she held himuntil others came and later the po-lice, who took him to Jail.It proved to be “Mike1’ Potro, a foreigner, who had entered the house through a rear door, ransacked the interior and had put on two shirt waists, an apron and threw a skirt over his head.The only excuse tho man had -for entering- tho house was that he was under the influence of liquor. It vus ascertained that the fellow had been prowling around another house near by and that a girl secured a gun and was ready to shoot had he attempted to enter.Just what his object was In entering the Lattish home is noe clear. The impression is that he intended to assault the daughter of Mr. Lattish and her little friend. The affair created great excitement In tho vicinity for the reason that a number of women havo been followed of late and also girlsfl. In the Municipal court ho was^ fined $5 and costs on charge of being drunk and disorderly.
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Racine Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Sep 03, 1912
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