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Show AGED WOMAN IS BRUTALLY ASSAULTED AND ROBBED TACOMA, Wash., April IS. Mrs.. Flizii Poekman, aged 57 years, wifo of L. H. Poekman. manager of the Wyn-koop. Wyn-koop. Vaughn Drug company, was bru- j t a 1 1 3 a&saulled and robbed of her hnud- , bag, which coulained a watch and a ! j few dollars in money, by a thug last night. Oulv for the time' arrival of j assistance the fiend might have killed I the helpless woman. I Mrs. Poekman 'a assailant broke the I bridge of her none, blackened and closed both of her eyes, and choked Jier nearly into insensibility. She lies at her , homo in a hysterical condition. , |