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Show FREAKS OF JACK THE SPITTER. A Strange ItelngWhe linn Been Terrorizing the I. mill's of St. I, mild. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 9. For the past few day tho ladies of tho West End that surrounds Olive and Compton avenue have been, if possible, more terrorized ter-rorized by a man known as "Jack the Spitter" than they were by the actions of "Jack the Kisser," who frequented that neighborhood a brief time since. This latter individual would walk up to a lady and deliberately expectorate tobacco juice in thofface (if tho ladies. Yesterday ho started on a nose-pulling campaign, which preceded his lilthy action. One of his victims, Miss Myra Sullivan, who was going tomass.ohased the man awav, but the pretty 17-year-old daughter of Mr. R. A. Forbes, living at Olive and Twenty-second streets, was not so fortunate. She was standing on a corner awaiting a car, when the attack was make, immediately after which the man was arrested. The officers say he is insane, and will probably be sent to the asylum. |