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Show RANSACKS HOUSE; ! DAYLIGHT ROBBER i Special to Tlie Tribune. OGDEN, Dec. 1!. While Mrs. B. H. Lecsmann was working in the basement of her residence, 1 2 Twenty-third streVt, at L':o0 o'clock this afternoon, a sneak thief entered the house and escaped with a pocketbo.-'k containing about $2 in small ; hange. Hearing footsteps above. Sirs. - 1 .eesmann ascended to the first floor in time to catch the thief ransacking the drawers of a bedroom bureau. rushintr the woman aside with such force that she fell to the floor, the daylight day-light lmrular dashed past her and out j of the hi'us She pursued him down i the street for a half-block, but he easily outdistance j lu-r. The empty pocketbook j was found by Sergeant C. P. Fitzgerald in a near-by vacant lot. According to ! the woman, the thief was young and un-1 un-1 usually well dressed. Mrs. leesmann's i husband is pastor of St. Paul's German luvartgical church. |