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Show WOMEN PUMMEL STRANGE 'PEEPER' E. C. Durkee, 25 years old, who says he is an actor playing at a local theater under the name of ''Alexander," early this morning acted the part of a peeping peep-ing Tom, with the result that he was with difficulty rescued by a squad of police, who took him, a sorry and bedraggled be-draggled mass of battered humanity, from the hands of those upon whom lie had been spying. i Durkee, or "Alexander,'.' was found peeping into the bedroom window of the home of C. E. Riley, 219 West Seventh Sev-enth South street, where some of the young women were preparing to retire. One of them, glancing at the window, discovered him and awoke the male members of the family. The peeper, not suspecting that he had been seen, continued to peep. Meanwhile the family fam-ily divided into two squads of four each and swooped down upon the inauisitive one, from front and rear. When Officers W. E. Jukes, G. M. Gregory and William Pierce arrived on the scene, Durkee was lying on the lawn wondering whether a cyclone or a railroad rail-road train had struck him. Both his eyes were swollen shut, blood flowed from numerous cuts and his clothing was in tatters. Three girls and two voung men were busily engaged in putting put-ting an artistic finish on the mauling he had received. He told the police that he is married but separated from his wife. His shoes were found in the grass near the sidewalk, where he had removed them before approaching the window. v |