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Show SNATCHED BALD HEADED. A Chirago Woman TunLhe. a Darina Footpad. Chicago, Jan. 27. Miss M. E. Wil-mount Wil-mount literally snatched a man bald headed last night, Tho man was a footpad, Frank Peterson, who attempted attempt-ed on West Lake street to grab her purse containing containing S'iO. Miss Wilmount Kept her grip on the purse with one hand and with tho other clutched the robber's hair, and then screamed again and again. The fellow iu alarm made a sudden plunge to escape es-cape and succeeded, leaving a handful of hair in Miss Wilniount's fingers. Peterson was arrested shortly afterward, after-ward, the police following his bloody-trail bloody-trail over half a mile from the scene of the scalping. |