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Show NEGRESS ATTEMPTS A BOLD ROBBERY Street Walker Leads and Austrian Down a Dark Alley and Gets Possession Pos-session of Man's Purse Containing $150 She Fights to Get Away, Using Her Finger Nails on the Face of Her Victim Cries of the Foreigner Arouse the Neighborhood N and Bring Assistance Deplorable Condition of the City. Maggie Jones, a negross, is being held at the city Jail and will probably be charged with grand larceny for her attempt to rob Joseph Bastou, an Austrian, of ?150 aj 0 30 o'clock last night. According to the story told by Das-ton, Das-ton, he had aaked tho woman near Wall aenuc and Twenty-fifth street lo direct him to a rooming house and sho had taken him south on Wall avc-nuo avc-nuo until they neared Twenty-sixth street. Where It was dark, sho threw her arms about the Austrian ifnd deftly extracted his purse from a pocket. When sho attempted lo run away, however, the victim caught hold of her clothing and screamed, and a lively scene resulted So desperately desperate-ly did the woman fight that thc man's cheeks were raw where she had' fcratched him. and It was not until residents In that neighborhood, hearing hear-ing the outcries, came to the aid of tho man, was he ablo to gain a mastery. mas-tery. A call was sent to the police station, sta-tion, and Sergeant E. C. Layne and Patrolman PI C. Peterson responded Thoy found Baston fighting for his hold on the ncgress and both were taken to the station. No money was found on the woman when she was searched, and tho officers, offi-cers, with the victim, returned to the scene of tho combat. A diligent search resulted In the finding of the purse under a bush near the scene of Uio excitement. No money was missing. miss-ing. Baston Is being held as a witness. Tho parade of these women In that part of the city Is said to he a nightly night-ly occurrence. |