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Show BIG FEMALE HOLD-UP BLACK AS A BOTTLE i A female hold-up as black as the nee of spades is said to be operating on tho West Side. Late Tuesday night a weakly built young German about 22 years old rushed up to Patrolman Tom MUner at the Rio Grande depot and i stated that he had been robbed of 52 He said in broken English that he was walking homo along West Second South street when a. large colored woman came up beside him and asked him for 10 cents. He refused to give her anything any-thing and quickened his pace. She kept beside him, crowding him against the fence, and demanding money. At tho end of the block she pinned him against the fence and put her hand In his vest pocket, abstracting the J2. Tho young man said he started to follow the woman when some one, he did not know whether 1L was the woman or not. threw a rode which whizzed by his head. This put an end to the surveillance, sur-veillance, and the young German went to tho Rio Grande depot as fast as his legs would carry him, where he found the officer. Mr. MUner went to a house on Third West street occupied by some ' colored women. He found no one there finswering the description of the holdup, hold-up, but one of the women In the house said that a woman who did fill the bill had been there. The officer secured her address, which Is on Franklin avenue. ave-nue. He then told the victim to report the matter to the police station, but the German evidently decided that the ?2 was not worth the trouble, for he did not appear at the station. The offi cer did not ask his name. |