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Show HIDES BURGLAR IN BED, CALLS POLICE Woman Proves Too Clever for Thief Who Thought to , Escape by Ruse, Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, Sept. 13. Threo comic burglaries bur-glaries have occurred during tho week here. Threo burglars were surprised In an attempt to break Into a houso ln the Faubourg du Temple and tried to escape. es-cape. Two of thom succeeded, but tho third was confronted by Mme. Amaga. the occupant of tho house. He Implored pardon, saying that ho had taken refuge ln the house as he was pursued by Apaches. The woman professed pity for him and hid him In a bed. The man fell in with tho Idea without suspicion, and two minutes min-utes later Mine. Amaga returned with a couple of policemen and gave him ln chargo. At Dijon, when M. Charles, a shop-kcoper, shop-kcoper, returned home In tho night he heard nolsea which ho took to be caused by burglars. He ran for tho police, and with them re-entered tho houso. One of the policemen, howovor, was so agitated agi-tated whether from fear or the prospect of promotion Is not stated that he fired too soon and shot his colleague in tho log- Then, while the policeman was being taken to the hospital, tho "burglar" was discovered- The noise which had alarmed M, Charles was the snoring of his servant In tho next room, and what annoyed the policemen most was that she slept through It all. The third case has a spiritualistic setting. set-ting. M. and Mine. Masscr, living In the Rue Croix Nlvert, In Paris, declared that since the death of their only son two years ago the' had been In the habit of conversing with him. Tho other evening, even-ing, while they sat In darkness waiting for tho spirit to appear, they heard a nolso ln tho next room. They walled In vain for the spirit to tmanlfost Itself, and got up to go to Itod with the consoling thought that It Imd been there, although It had not spoken to them. Before retiring they looked Into the dining room noxt door and what they saw shook their faith In spiritualism. Everything of value had been removed by tho "spirit," whom tho conclorgo declared de-clared rushed past her on tho Btalrs carrying car-rying a well-filled bog. |