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Show NOCTURNAL FIEND PREYS ON WOKEN Warns of Coming Crimes and I Derides Police. i Nashville, Tenn. Nashville has 8 midnight prowler who makes threats j to kill, anil then keeps his promises. The n irvspapers and police are fran-1 fran-1 lical'y 1r?ng to solve the mystery. I ' A threat (hat he would enter a Del-j Del-j la avcn';e house was carried out when ; (lie marauder entered a house and slashed the throat of Mrs. Morton Smithson. I Then he wrote a letter deriding the "bum police" of Nashville and asking, ask-ing, "Who is tile joke on now?" A week later the editor of a Nashville newspaper received a letter saying: 'I promise to come back to Delta avenue Monday night, and I also prom ise that no one will live to tell the tale after I leave the house. I will kill first and not leave a chance of getting caught." The letter, scrawled on yellow paper pa-per with a pencil, was signed: "Yours truly, The Midnight Marauder." While a week before the newspapers newspa-pers and police took the first threal as a joke, serious alarm was occasioned occa-sioned by the second. A special detective detec-tive detail was sent out to capture the man. |