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Show POLICE TO INVESTIGATE Patrolman Picis Up Your? Han Who Was Looking: Into Woman's Parse, Fatrolman Ed Davles arrested Lee Burns, 24 years old, who claims to be an engineer, on a charge of trespass, this morning. Burns was seen by the patrolman to be loitering about the . Oregon Short Line depot about 10 o'clock, and aroused the suspicion of Patrolman Daviee; who watched him closely from , a place of semi-concealment. Burns, Patrolman Davles says, went to a Bpot near a fence and, partly obscured ob-scured from the depot but within, the watcher's range of vision, and, taking a . woman's pocketbook from a pocket, began to examine its contents carefully. care-fully. When so engaged. Patrolman -Daviee came upon Burns unexpectedly and the latter, confused, endeavored to secrete It, but not quickly enough to 'delude the patrolman. Burns was taken to the police station and locked up on a charge of trespass. While being booked he made an appeal for permission to get away, saying he had a good position at Sandy at $3.50 per day. Patrolman Daviee declined to release Burns, who declared that he had come to town last night with a woman friend who lives near Sandy, and that the two had spent the money that had been in the purse. The purse, he said, he Intended to return to her. A number of thefts of grips, band-bags band-bags and other articles have occurred at the Short Line depot recently. A thorough Investigation will be made by the police. |