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Show WOMAN COMPELLED SON TO AID HER IN CRIME Oakland, Cal., Oct, 2. "Mother gavo me the black mask and tho revolver," re-volver," confessed Harold Wright, 15 years old, according to tho police, last night. "Sho told mo to hide under un-der tho bed and when tho man was nslccp to crawl out and hold him up. I didn't have tho nerve to try It' Sho beat me." Tho boy has been held In Jail for a week, whllo detectives dally attempted at-tempted to secure a confession from htm, or from his mother, Mrs. Ida Wright, alleged by tho pollco to be a woman "raffles." Tho pollco said that young Wright confessed to having stolen an automobile auto-mobile In Pasadena, but steadily refused re-fused to acknowledge other crimes until confronted with a revolver and black mask found in the woman's trunk. He then told them, tho pollco say that while ho and his mother wero staying in a Portland, Ore., hotel his mother tried to force htm to hold up a wealthy fellow lodger. 'The police claim that tho woman has a lengthy criminal record in tho northwest, and that she was arrested In Colorado Springs. |