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Show Hat Pin Kuse Foiled. A clever ruse, by which sho hoped to ox-clto ox-clto pity and gain freedom, was resorted to yesterday by Eva Smith, a young colored col-ored woman, when sho was arrested In a Market street department store on tho chargo of shopllftlner. While being taken to tho City hall she Jabbed a hat pin Into tho gums around her front teeth. From the wounds tho blood gushed, and when the prisoner withdrew a crimson-stained handkerchief from her mouth sho threw up her hands and cried: "Oh. I am dying. I am having a hemorrhage hem-orrhage of the lungs. Tho doctor told me the next one would kill me." Detectives Prentiss and Moylan, suspecting sus-pecting that a ruso was being resorted to, soon found tho causo of the prisoner's '"hemorrhage." and they took the pin from her. She quickly stopped the demonstration demonstra-tion nnd was locked up. Philadelphia Record. |