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Show CHAUFFEUR TRICKED Police Mystified Over Actions of Man Supposed to Be Masquerading as Woman. Police ami detectives are wrestling with tho mystery of a man who, it is believed, is masquerading as a woman, probably for amusement, but possi-bl' possi-bl' for criminal purposes. The police have a blond wig and a plaid. cloth hat on which to hang their theory. The identity of the person, who discarded them in the rear ot 750 South West Temple street, early yesterday morning, and escaped by climbing over a high board fence, while a chauffeur waited vainly in his machine in tho street for his fair passenger to return with the price of the car's hire, it; the thing that unfiles the detectives working on tho case. According to the detectives, tho chauffeur discovered that ho had been tricked when ho grow impatient and knocked lor entrance at the front door of tho house to learn that no young woman wo-man of the description of his passenger lived there. He i-xplained that she had promised to go into the house and get some money to pav him' for his services, becoming convinced, however, that the explanation had been only a clever ruse to avoid payment, the chauffeur drove away wiscr but disposed to keop his own' counsel. forhe did not report the swindle to the police. The story came out yesterday when the wig and hat were found by a member mem-ber of the family residing in the house at 750 South West Temple and turned over to tho police. Detectives Moroni Gillespie and Harlow "D. Lyon were assigned as-signed to investigate the mystery. Thev wero unable to locate the chauffeur and got his story from the woman of the house, who was awakened by the driver of tho auto in search of his delinquent passonger. |