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Show Gil NfiBS TIIIEr AND PEATS lIKj la' Street Vhile Admiring Crpwd, Flcclly tencra-pher tencra-pher Thrashes Han for ; Stealing PccliethcolL V NEW YOEK; Nov. -1. Cheered by fully a hundred persons. Miss Frances Sera, a stenographer, employed in a Broadway building, chased, - captured and thrashad a 'man whom she accused ac-cused of having aided a pickpocket ia stealing a purse from br at Nassaa and Beekman streets.- With her; par-ants par-ants she Uvea -at .Np, 492 Lorimer street Williamsburg. . Miss Kern was jostled by two men in a Nassau street crowd and an instant in-stant later missed her purse from her coat pocket Turning around, she reached out for a middle-aged man, who, aha says, handed the purse to a younger man, who promptly started to run down ths. Btrset. Mie Kern, pursued pur-sued him and a crowd joined her. After following him for. several blocks Miss Kern grasped the man by the collar and with her right fist struck him several times in the face. - "Give it to his again," shouted the crowd which came up and surrounded the pair. ' Policeman Hanlon arrested the girl's ' prisoner, who, after he had given bis name as Benjamin Littleburg of No. 42 Essex street was said by the police to have his photograph in the Bogues' Why, I found that puree," said Iittleburg. as he handed the purse over to Misa Kern. "Yes, yop found it whera it wasn't loaf rtpliedMiss Kern, as the crowd cheered her. . ... "Uttleburg will bo arraigned in the i Tombs Police court "111 be in court to prosecute this man," said Mies Kern later. "I will taaca him a good lesson not . to interfere inter-fere with other people's property." |