| Show PEOPLE BREATHE BREA TH THUSY EASY ONCE MORE ME I i Epidemic of Crime at Pittsburg I i I Over Terrible Record of ot J I Sixteen en Days pays 0 1 iV i if r f r i I Pittsburg Nov O 18 The epidemic ml of I II I crime that that has swept over this city and vicinity since Nov No 2 has apparently app I run its course and today toda only a few i ismall small burglaries were reported Dur During During During ing the sixteen days three murders I i were committed carbolic acid was thrown In one womans face disfiguring her for life half a hundred men were badly beaten a n hundred or more men and women were held up o Oi j the streets at the point of ot revolvers and ami robbed houses in all sections of the city elt were entered and thousands thousand of dollars worth of plunder stolen scores of suspicious persons p have been arrested and sent to the workhouse two hundred additional policemen were added to the force and large rewards were offered for the ar arrest arrest arrest rest of the murderers of James Tames A Mc c Milien and Henry F Smith Detectives came here from other cities and endeavored to capture the j I I marauders but bat notwithstanding the combined efforts of the authorities they the I failed to arrest any am person directly im implicated Implicated in the outrages A few Cew days day following the McMillen murder hold holdups holdups holdups ups were so frequent that persons com corn compelled compelled to be out late armed themselves The police express the belief now that the outrages were committed by a rov roy rovIn rovIng In Ing band hand o of expert criminals who ho have hac departed for Cor or other fields I |
