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Show POLICE ARREST SUSPEGTED BURGLAR Ladder Against Wall and Cached Bicycle Said to Have Been Used by Questioned Night Prowler JOHN SOLOMON, 520 West Second North streot, is held w in the city jail for investigation. r According to the police. W. R. I Brown, 2')'i Fern avenue, heard j omMn prowling about the house at J He raised a window and fird abor j the head if the man, commanding him J to mirrender. The police may that the ftllejred prowler was Solomon. Ietec- ! tivt'8 Jack Kftbert and C. W. Roaen- krantz arrived at the Brown residence I antl took the man In custody. A ladder was discovered extending:1 from the jrround to a bathroom window ) on the second floor of the residence-: 9j The police say hat they found . bi ll ryclo whirh Solomon had cached across I! the Ftrort. j H Urown reported that residents In the vicinity had noticed a man prowling I; about the neighborhood at night on I j several occasions. According to the: I 1 police, a nearch had been conducted I '. for a considerable time for a man who I answered Solomon's description and I who always escaped on a bicycle. Just ff ; what the prowler's purpose was has I I not been discovered. I Solomon asserted that he was look- I lng for the house-of a friend, but could I not give his address when questioned I by the police. Iater he stated that he 1 worked a night shift In the north yards .( und that h ki taking a short cut through the back yards to reach home |