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Show oc WRONG MAN ANDYET THE 8IQ0TMAN 1 Although ha resisted arrest with all the viciousness of a hardened criminal, crim-inal, the police now admit that they made .a mistake in arresting Robert Crossland for the attempted robbery of the Iowa rooming house. Crossland was arrested yesterday afternoon on the bank' of the Oden river, after a desperate struggle with the man who V7c:!del a slug-shot. In the fray, which took phce 'n the river, a bulldog participated, lending its unsolicited aid to thf fugitive. When the yonj lady who had seen the burglar Jn the Iowa rooralnr house -was asked to pasa on the identity of Crossland this morning she stated that he was not Ihe man whom 6he had encountered Thursdav morning. Puzzled to know why Crossland had offered so fierce a resistance to arrest when Innocent and why he should have been armed with a slu?-sbot. the police continued their Investigations concerning the man and have learned that he committed a theft Thursday morning, near the Eighth wavrl meeting meet-ing house. The prisoner, it is said, has admitted that h stole some clothing cloth-ing from a yard and that when the officer of-ficer approached he thought they were after him for this crime. Crosaland denies that the bulldog which endeavored to defend him from the officer belonged to him and the officers of-ficers have learned that tho animal i was the property of a boy who was fishing a short distance from the scene of tho encounter. Crossland will most likely be held on a charge of petit larceny. -1 |