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Show Poverty Caused Crime. Denver, Colo. Claiming she was dying of consumption and was forced to steal to obtain food and medicine, a woman thief, signing herself Mrs. M. L. Crane, Saturday night left a note in the room of one of her victims, vic-tims, explaining her plight and begging beg-ging pardon for the thefts. Numerous 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 articles ar-ticles from a room occupied by sleeping sleep-ing women, left the note and disappeared. |