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Show w Cnes of Youngster Forces For-ces a Burglar to Hasty Retreat New York, Aug. 7. Alfred May, the lusty lunged five-year-old from San Francisco, saved the home of his uncle un-cle on West 61st street from burglary earlv today k The Intruder would probably prob-ably have made a rich haul if he had not been frightened away by the boy's outcries, for there was more than $4,000 in jewels and securities within easy reach when he fled. Alfred was sleeping in a bedroom at one end of the house and awoke early in the morning. He saw a masked figure sliding down a rope from the roof to his window. As the man crept through the window, Alfred screamed. The would-be burglar lost no time in clambering up his rope to tho roof whence he escaped, 'before tho polfce could be summoned. |