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Show WOMAN BELIEVED TO BE MEMBER OF GANG Jennie Smith, a nogress, arrested lato Thursdav night as a vagrant, is thought by tho police to bo a member of a gang of negro holdups, two of whom are men. Tho woman is believed be-lieved to have boon a participant in tho holdup Thursday night of James Pierce, a railrond man employed by the Oregon Short Line. An investigation investi-gation of tho holdup yesterday by the police and tho county attorney's office of-fice revealed cvidenco which it is thought will conucct tho ncgross with the nlFair. Pierco wns hold up shortly beforo 11 o'clock Thursday night near the O. S- L. passenger station. "When ordered or-dered to throw up his hands ho showed fight and was struck on tho chin by a bottlo thrown by one of tho - negroes. ne-groes. Tho negroes fled and tho Smith woman was lator arreslod by Patrolman Patrol-man K. W. Palmer. Sho is -being hold in tho city jail pending further investigation. |