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Show RUSTLING NOISE OF PAPER LEADS TO A CAPTURE Binghamton, N- Y . Jan. 23. A bit of paper rustling in the wind, foiled a plan to rob four stores here last night. Patrolman W. T. Hunt, pa-J trolling his beat In Water street,.1 heard a slight noise and peered into a dark alleyway. He saw that the rustling noise was caused by a piece of newspaper .blown along the pavement, pave-ment, but looking further, he spied . a man trying to force an entrance into the rear door of a store. I The policeman watched the man at ! work for a time and then arrested ' him. He proved to be Phil McManus, with a long criminal record He had j already forced the rear doors of four j stores and was evidently planning to so through all of them in succession, if undisturbed. n |