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Show THROWS ACID II INHIHACE I Man Dies In Park Ac- II cusing Girl of Being II His Murderer II New York, Sept. 11. Screams com- ' Hill Ing from a park In Brooklyn late last IBl night brought a crowd of passeraby j Kl hurrying to a secluded bench, where HH they found a man with his hand9 KA pressed to his eyes moaning that a j, H woman had thrown acid in his face. . H The police arrested a girl "who gave M her name as Esther Capatan, and led H her to the park bench, but the man H was so badly burned about the eyes Hfl that he could not see her. Soon he H became unconscious and died before H an ambulance arrived. Under pressure from the police the ifl girl satd she knew the man as Sara- H uel Kaplan and that he had taken all fl her money under faithless promises ' Vfl of marriage. 'She declared that ho Bl was one of a group of swindlers want- ( Hl ed in Chicago. Although she insisted IHfl that ho had taken the1 acid himself WwM after trylnf to force her to drink It she was locked up on a homicide l charge. LI |