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Show UU H Of AJMD I Flowers For a Burglar" , "S "Vho llaffttgr" .Shot Kalamazoo, .Mich., Jan. 3. John M Pennymore, self-confessed burglar. Is M thought to he dying in a loeaL hospital M .from bullet wouuds received whe-i H shot a few nights ago by Patrolmau mmULm Carson, Ina running pistol fight. M New Year's night the officer was M told Pennymore was not expected to H live. He went home with a heay tLLM heart and for a long lime there was a H silence in the house It was broken IM by thc uucry of his four-year old M daughter- jLkuM "What's tho matter, papa?" H "I've shot a man who cannot live," M thc patrolman cxnlaineJ. M A few minutes later tho little girl M disappeared. She had some money M saved from Christmas presents. Down M town through snew she plodded, tin M til sho reached a florists, where she M was known. She asked for roses. M Clasplpg the flowers in her arms, she M went to thc hospital and to the br-d- M side of lhe dying man. H "I've come to bring you these." sho H lisped. "Papa said he had hurt you." H She banded tho roses to the wound- IH man. H Tears stood large in the eyes of the H sufferor. LJmm "Thanhs, kid." he said. "I've ?ot H one at home just like you. But no H ono knows where the home Is--and I H ain't telllu' nothing. Thanks, hid." H Pennymore. a little later, lapsed in- B to unconsciousness He didn't tell B where his home la. vl |