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Show WOMAX THIEF EXPLUSS REASON FOR GRIMES DENVER. Colo., Jan. 23. Claiming she was dying of consumption and was forced to steal to obtain 'fond aud medicine, medi-cine, a woman thief, signing herself Mrs. M. L. Crane, last, night left a uoto in tho room of ono of her victims explaining explain-ing her plight and begging pardon for thc thefts. Numerous robberies have been committed com-mitted in an apartment house on Eighteenth Eigh-teenth avenue of late, all evidently by tho same porsou. Last night tho thief reappeared and stolo several articles from a room occupied by sleeping women, after which sho evidently sat down and wrote thc note. She then disappeared. |