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Show WOMAN HIDES IN DARK AND SHOOT8 INTRUDER Series of Burglaries Ends In Killing of Intruder by Neighbor She Robbed St. Louis, Jan. 2G. A mysterious burglar having robber her homo sovoral sov-oral times recently, Mrs. Jennio O. Thornburg tonight "darkened hor houso and, revolver In hand, awaited tho coming of tho Intruder. About 8 o'clock hor vigil was disturbed dis-turbed by someono filing tho fastenings fasten-ings of a bedroom window. After a few minutes tho window wns raised stealthily and someono crawled into tho room. Mrs. Thornburg flrcd. Then alio turned on tho lights. On tho floor near tho window lay tho body of Mrs. J. K. McWilllamo a neighbor and tho mother of a 3 year old daughter. In her hand was clutched a thin, Hat Hlo. A pockot of her apron wns filled with matches and in another pocket woro sovoral unpaid coal hills. A llttlo whilo boforo Mrs. McWll-llnma McWll-llnma had sent her child to piny with another neighbor's children. Mrs. McWIlllnms' husband 1 n railway mall clerk. Mrs. McWIlllnms was 20 years old and was considered unusually pretty In Octobor, 1913, sho was tried on n chargo of attempting to poison four persons at n houso whero sho and her husband boarded, but was acquitted. |