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Show WOMEN SURROUND MAN THEY SUSPECT OF BEING BURGLAR Detain Joe Smith as Han Who Chloroformed Mrs. Cameron. Charged with being the man. posing as a deaf mute beggar, who chloroformed Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron. SO yeara old, at her home. M4 South Sixth West street, last Friday afternoon, and robbed her of 117. Joe Smith. 1 yeara old, who declare he la a waiter, but who haa been begging beg-ging for" a living, waa a treated at Eighth South and Fifth West streets shortly after noon todav. He waa partly identified iden-tified by a number of women of that neighborhood, who held him a prisoner until Motorcycle Patrolman Dan Orund-vfg Orund-vfg arrived with the patrol wag-on and placed him under arrest. A woman of that neighborhood telephoned tele-phoned to police headquarters that a man answering the description of Mrs. Cameron's Cam-eron's aaaaJlant had been to her house a few mlnuies before, begging, and that he waa then In the house of a neighbor. The wagon waa aent to the place at once. When the policemen arrived they found that the man had been detained by the women of the neighborhood, who had been greatly aroused by tha attack upon Mrs. Cameron, and that they had compelled com-pelled him to remain until the arrival of the police. When Motorcycle Patrolman Orundvlg arrested Smith, the latter wrote the following fol-lowing explanation on a pad: I waa surrounded by some womenT and I Inquired what waa the matter. "They told me that aome woman was chloroformed, and en woman I don't know her name shook her head when I waa pointed out." Whan Smith was searched at police headquarters, a number of "begging cards and about 90 cents In nickels and pennies were found In hla pockets. He also had a few lead pencils, which he said ha had been trying to. sell. Smith denies vehemently that he Is the man who aaaaulted Mrs. Cameron, hut his Identification by other women or the neighborhood haa convinced the police that he ts the man wanted. Mrs. Cameron Cam-eron will be taken to police headquarters today to see Smith. SSSSSS..SSSSSSSS I S. , -s |