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Show . ROBBER FLEES ! WHEN CAUGHT ' LOOTING HOME Mr. J. C Truitt Sur- priae Burglar and Lock Door on Him, but Win- dow la Meant for Escape A woman'a quick wlta cam cloe to being tha undoing of a home prowler who waa believed to ha burglarising tha homo ol J. M. Truitt, H Kaat Fifth Souttr atreat. when Mra. Truitt returned home abortly after midnight with a party . of, friend. Including her aon and duhlr-ln-J:iw. Mr. and Mra. I. C. Truitt. ' - ' ' Mra. J. C. fruM aacended to the iwcond floor of the" h ma. entered her room and took off her Kit and laid har para down. Bno then went ta another room. Aa aho rama out of tha eecond room aho thought aha aaw a man dodga Into her room and alam tha dcor behl.Ml. She ran and locked the door fror. Iho out' Ida and ld other member of the family to call tha police. ROBBER VANISHES. Of'lcera C. W. Roaenkrtata and W. Q. Madaen reaponded but when he bedroom door waa unlocked I' wr found that tha mytfloua mrtn r. id vaniahad. Tha wladow open Ki.d avldamea of a hurrhl aeareh el tha room wra found. A bo of clnthlng wa thiown on h floor. ' from the clown ahelf and a rug that had lain acrosa a chair waa thrown Into a cornsr of tha roim. Mra Truitt aald ha did not- open the window when rha cam t take off har hat. Tta window, only about a foot above the floor, la no far above tha ground and Mra. J. M. Trullt tsl'l .he found foot y'nt In th gmuSil where tha frlghtoned burglar had ev'dently lumped In making hla cacan. Kothln if value val-ue waa take, from tho houfc. INTRUDER REPELLED. . R. S. Lewli. 1011 Bouth Fourteenth Four-teenth Bant atreet. awoke early thla morning and heard aomono trying II" isrt Into the acreen porr. lie not i. nntl :ooked out tha back door window' and aaw a man with a handkvrrn'tf tied acroa tha lower part of h fao peering through tha f . acreen. Lawla went back and got hla gun, but when ha returned the Intruder ha dlaappeured. Lawla went out and fired a ahot In the - air to haaten the Intruder on hu way. ha told the police. Dr. B. W. Browning. "It Fnlf-' Fnlf-' avenue reported to the p-li;a hot a aann peered threaten hit etvtly & wlt dow i.rly thl mornlnc a ih . dvtor waa aeated at hi deak read-I read-I f Ing. .The doctor ahou:el and the I 1 njan rn away. . . I - - ,- ;-r - I |