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Show drug store robbed by Morphine users Inability of Woman to Obtain Telephone Connection Prevents Their Arrest. Burglars in search of morph ne and coca ne broke into the Acme pharmacy Ninth East and Tenth South streets, at an earlv hour yeeterdav morning steal ing abont $ 5 worth of the drugs Ep trance was ga ned bv the breaking of a rear window Thi aroused Mrs. R b Barnes 933 I set Tenth 'South street who telephoned to the police Some minutes were waste 1 before Mrs Barnes coull raie central rlur ing whi h t me the burglars emerge 1 through the broken window and walked west on Tenth Soi th street Thev had been gone abont twenty minutes when the police auto arrived the delay hav ing 1 een ea sed by the inability of Mrs Barnes to read Iv get a telephone con noet on Detectives J E. Woodard J A Egbert and Patrolman St John eovered the distance between pol ce hradq larters and the drug store in seven minutes deBpite a blinding enow Storm which was raging The burglars also took abo t $9 which was in the cash register |