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Show PEEPING TOM Receives va Charge of BucksJhot Bu Escapes Hopewell,, ? J.. April 20. Tho entire en-tire masculine population of this village vil-lage ib searching the vicinity, today for a "Peplng Tom" who has disturbed dis-turbed the quiet-community for several sev-eral weeks and for the last twenty-four twenty-four hours has been wandering at large 'well punctured by a charge of shot fired by one of tho principal citizens. '-' ' Hopewell has been In terror for the last month over stories of a mun who made a. practice of ascending to second sec-ond storv windows' by mea'ris of a ladder lad-der l , ' The lS-year-old daughator of Edward Ed-ward Waters, a towngh'lp officer, heard the window' scrape Thursday night. She called her fathor. He seized a double-barreled shotgun, and. In hla bare feet, dashe'ti out on the lawn The man had taken alarm and was running awav when Waters appeared and fired The charge struck the fugitive fugi-tive and he fell la the roadway. A moment later he rcga.ncd his footing and fled screaming across the fields 1 The police believe he Is in hiding in the woods near the town. |