Show Gift GIL DRESSED DRESSEn AS ASMAN A I IMAN MAN POSES AS BURGLAR BURGl i Milliner FinIs Finds g Roommate in Apartment Mystery in Theft Special to The Telegram LOS ANGELES Col April 10 Migs Bessie Simpson and Miss Louise Cook milliners who came to Los Angeles from the East seventeen months ago and have havo dwelt together since sines in an an apartment at 1324 Bond street have have- b becu cu instructed to appear at tho district attorneys attorney's office t to explain the mystery of a midnight struggle between them in which Miss Simpson dressed in a mans man's suit enacted tho role of burglar 2 Miss 85 Cook was awakened by the prea prea- once of some one in tho room She felt for the tho roommate at her side she was gone A pocket flash lamp flared and the tho terrified Miss Cook saw caw a man standing on the corner of her bed bod The Tho light ot the tho pocket lamp for a moment in the tho intruders intruder's face and Miss Cook recognized ice rec Miss Simpson She sprang out of bed and grappled with the burglar burglar bur glar 4 Girls Pull Hair The Tho girls buffeted each other and pulled hair and screeched They out into the tho hallway Help help helpt Burglars Stop him I stop him screamed Miss Cook Downstairs on th the first floor J 7 17 Miller and H. H r S. S Waight heroically grappled with the fleeing burglar and ami throw him heavily to the carpet Dont hurt me Im I'm only a girl pleaded the tho captive The Tho puzzled cap tors escorted their prisoner upstairs Miss Cook spent the night in a neigh neigh- hers bor's apartment audi and Miss Simpson get ting quickly back into her own garb d disappeared reAl Last Friday Mi Miss Cook reported to tile tho police that she had been robbed a week before of She told Detectives Rowe and McCann that Miss Simpson had borrowed the tho money and paid it back one night and suggested that she hide it in the waste paper basket In Inthe Inthe the morning tho basket contents were scatter over the tho floor and the gone she said Burglars Are Blamed Burglars have been her and taken your money she declared Miss Simp son said Miss Cook also stated that from that moment her roommate talked much of burglars Miss Cook refused to talk and intimated inti intimated mated the lost money was all right Miss Simpson had been back to see her and she came caine in again while detec detoe detectives tives I know knew I was suspected suspected of of taking the but I didn didn't t believe it had been stolen at all so I got a suit and hat of my cousin Russell Page and pretended to be a burglar BO so that t L could rummage Lous Lou's belongings and maybe find that money she said |