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Show MONKEY A BURGLAR SUSPECT Chicago Crook Thought by the Police Po-lice of That City to Have a Sim-Ian Sim-Ian Aaslitant. 'Some hard-pressed organ grinder has turned h'ir;l?r nnd Is using hlf trained monley as nn accomplice, nc-cctdiiig nc-cctdiiig to tl. theory advanced by the Chicago po11c to uccount for certain cer-tain meitilouo icbbcrlcs committed recently In the northern part of that city and In Evanston. The burglarious monkey If it was a burglar visited the homo of H. B. Wheelock, in EvanBton. Monkoy toot-prints toot-prints were discovered on a window sill and tho heavy shoe markB of a man on tho ground below. "It was about midnight when I heard a volco In tho open window," said Mrs. Wheelock. "Then I heard a squeal and a soft thud as tho animal loaped to tho top of tho bureau. This was followed by angry squealing. My husband was awakened. I heard a tray In which I kept a tow trinkets being be-ing slid across tho bureau. My husband hus-band leaped from bed and groped toward to-ward tho electric light switch. As he reached the switch tho animal gavo a shriek and scrambled out of tho window." Tho pollco theory 1b that tho owner figured that the monkey would grasp any gllttorlng object it might como upon. Tho squeals were accounted tor on tho theory that the rope was Jerked Jerk-ed so violently aa to anger tho simian burglar. |