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Show ler aL home. "Vobber-vcnt into ft""' apartment anil talked to the women wom-en for more than two hours, while his companions waited outside in the hallway. While he was there the four maniacs returned. Nelson, upon seeinK the detective, produced a pistol pis-tol and covered him. "Hold on there." said Wobbcr, who had not revealed his identity. "Be careful with that thingyou might hurt somebody. Put it away, I'm o. k." Nelson, apparently convinced, put the sun in his pocket. Wobbcr immediately pulled his own pistol and covered the men. He called to his companions, but discovered dis-covered they had gone away on a false clue. They had followed a watchman in the building who had left shortly before. FOUR MANIACS ARE CAPTURED NEW YORK. Dec. 9. (i".!!!- Foul of the seven maniacs who made a! spectacular escape on Thursday j from the state hospital for the ; criminal insane at Beacon, N. Y , j were back in the hospital today-through today-through quick work of a young, third-grade detective. George E. Wobber, assigned to Brooklyn headquarters, held the lour desperate men and a woman at bay for nearly half an hour in a bare, dimly lighted apartment before be-fore dawn yesterday until other detectives arrived to arrest them. The four recaptured arc William H. Nelson, 21, the insane burglar who escaped two weeks ago and returned re-turned to liberate six other irr-matcs; irr-matcs; Harry Gordon, known as the "mad butcher of Rochester."; John Diggins, 30, and Frank Cam-bill. Cam-bill. The woman arrested with them, charged with harboring criminals, was Mrs. Marie Ockcn-fcls, Ockcn-fcls, 30. , Wobbcr, with three other detectives, detec-tives, traced the maniacs to the Brooklyn apartment, which was rented by Mrs. Ockenfels, and found only the woman and her sis- |