Show Watch and Chain Disappear When Buyer Sees Home Under Pretext of Examining House With Idea of Purchase Purchase Pur Fur I chase Alleged Crook Lifts Heirloom in Bedroom The police poUce Issued a warning Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- to home owners against an alleged Imposter representing himself himself him him- self as a buyer buer to gain entrance to the house houle for Cor the purpose o of pil pil- fering Mr Ir and Mrs R. R D. D Woodruff 71 1 P street reported a case where a man entered their home Friday afternoon ostensibly to look at the interior When Then he departed it was found that a gold watch and nd chain had been stolen from a box boxon boxon boxon on the dresser in the bedroom The victims told Det he L. L L L. Larsen Larsen Larsen Lar- Lar sen the man came to the front door saying saying- that tha he had bad observed a fo for o sale sign on on the the house and expressed a desire to view the Int Interior With the Woodruffs he went through the various rooms and when the living room was reached he made a pretext to revisit the bedroom and did so unaccompanied it was reported The man described as about 40 or 45 years old and ana weighing about pounds then left remarking that the house was probably what he wanted for his wife and two children and he would bring them to se see It later After his departure departure departure depar depar- ture th discovered ered the loss losa o ot of t f watch which is said to tobe tobe tobe be an heirloom left to Mrs Woodruff Woodruff Woodruff Wood Wood- ruff by her dead sister |