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Show Woman Slaps Burglar. St. Louis. Mrs. Albert Rexford, 624 East Second street. Alton, 111., awakened just at daybreak to see a man in his stocking feet crouching toward her bed. He had a knife in his hand and was reaching for Mr. Rexford's trousers Mrs. Rexford gave a scream and leaped at the burglar, striking him fairly in the face. This so frightened the man that he almost took the sash with him as he dived through the window. This commotion com-motion awakened Mr. Rexford, who obtained his pistol, but the burglar had vanished. Mrs. Rexford says she was so fright ened she did not know That she wa-doing. |