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Show Police Misses Him for ,1 Week, but She Stops Him in Street. HOLDS HIM UNTIL THE LIMBS OF LAW ARRIVE He Posed as "Gentleman of Leisure" and Courted Her Ardently. NEW YORK, March 4. A handsome, well-dressed young woman yesterday af-tornoon, af-tornoon, during shopping hours at Twenty-third street and Broadway, rushed into a crowd and throwing her arms around tho neck of a man bore hi mto tho ground nnd held him until four policemen po-licemen arrived, who picked him up without care and carted him to tho West Thirteenth street police station, with hundreds of people trailing behind. Harry Brunner, 24 years old, of Highland High-land Mills, N. Y., member of a wealthy and well-known family. Is the pedlgroo given by the prisoner. Miss Amber bmlth of No. 2245 East Sixty-first street Is complainant. She charges that the man courted her under tho name of Frank Champcaux and stole $10 and a J2C0 diamond ring from her. Brunner was transferred to the East Sixty-seventh street police station last night. Fairy Tales of Wealth. Somo months aco Miss Smith met Brunner, knowing him as Champeaux. He told her ho was a gentleman of leisure, lei-sure, had plenty of money and was living liv-ing at tho Imperial hotel. A few years ago, he said, he wa scmploycd by the Standard Oil company, and the police yesterday rudely observed that perhaps tho experience with the corporation had taught the man his delicate methods. A week ago yesterday Brunner called at Miss Smith's home In the afternoon, and asked if he could take her to the opera The girl's mother eald the young people had not known each other long enough for that, so tho man asked if he might not accompany die girl on a shopping shop-ping tour She agreed, nnd they took a car downtown. Miss Smith says that Brunner look $10 from hor purse a few minutes before they started. As the couple neared Long Aero square Brunner saw a diamond ring on the girl's finger, she oays, and resentfully said: " hy, you'rs engaged." She denied the assertion, and says Brunner asked to sea thu ring. It ,was handed over, and It Is declared that Brunner porfonned a deft disappearing act at Forty-second street and Broadway.- |