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Show HADE HER BUSINESS IBIS EOii MONEY Woman Under Arrest in Denver So Charged bv Police of that City. DENVER, March S.lt will be some llmo before Clara Howell will bo able to resume bcr alleged vocation o professional profes-sional mourner, according to tho Denver police. She was arrested today, charged with begging. Tho pollfc say the woman, wearing a black scarf which extended over her head and under her chin, niado a practice of attending funerals, not only at undertakers' under-takers' chapols, but even at private homes. Slipping quietly Into the funeral service slu would take a srat and begin to weep. Naturally some of tho relatives of the deceased would inquire concerning the Identity of the mourner. Then the disconsolate one. according to tho police, would invariably say Bhc was acquainted with the departed, and, incidentally, would call attention to her own poverty. She was generally successful, tho police assert, as-sert, in getting a "loan." Policeman Burdettc heard so many complaints com-plaints concerning the woman that he tool: her into custody today at a funeral at Millers' undertaking rooms. |