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Girls thwart a gulling suitor in Dearborn Street depot
A pair of Chicago policewomen staged a staged confrontation to trap a trickster who targeted a young woman. Miss Croat and Miss Wightman corralled the man who paced the Dearborn Street station, posing as a potential suitor, and secured his arrest after a brisk chase. The caper exposed a pattern of flirtation scams by con men preying on unsuspecting women and the officers warned of similar schemes.
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