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Show I BELIEVE EDWARDS MAT HAVE SMALLPOX Man Recently Sentenced for Theft May Be Transferred to Pesliiousc. "William Edwards, serving a fifteen months' sentence in the city jail for shop-lifting, has broken out with a rash which t.ho jail attendants and Dr. S. G. Paul beliovc may be smallpox, the disease not having gained sufiiciout headwaj- .Friday night to justify a cer-iain cer-iain diagnosis. The sick man is isolated from the. other prisoners, and this morning, morn-ing, if it be decided that he is afflicted with smallpox, lie will be sent to the pesthouse. Edwards -was arrested about two wcclcs ago with a woman who called herself Irene Hnwley. They were charged with shop-lifting from the Aucr-bach Aucr-bach dry goods store. The woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in the city jail. Edwards pleaded not guilty, throwing the blame for the stealing on the woman. Miss Hawle-, when placed upon the witness stand, substantiated what Edwards had said, and said that she alone was implicated im-plicated in the stealing. The testimony of the two, however, did not agree, and Edwards -was found guilty and sentenced sen-tenced to the limit for the offense. |