Show poverty caused crime denver cojo claiming she was dying of consumption and was forced to steal to obtain food and medicine d woman thief signing herself mrs M LL crane saturday night left a note in the room ot one of her vie tiffus explaining her plight and beg ging pardon for the thefts numer ous robberies have been committed in an apartment house on eighteenth avenue of late all evidently by the same person saturday night the thief reappeared stole several ar tides from a room occupied by sleep ing women left the note and disappeared |