Show POODLE DOG AND HAND HANDWRITING HANDWRITING WRITING LEAD TO CAPTURE St Sl tOil Is Nov No P Tho ho trig nac son SOli of a wealthy manufacturer f Bay Bar City who was locked lip up at police headquarters here to toIa Ia this on a charge chargo of swindling owes Isis his arrest to a poodle dog and a pen flourish The dog carried by br lit ll s less hatfield Seattle Wash en the tho clerk or of a local hotel to trac trace Thomas and the woman to Kan Kansas sas City The flourish made hy by Tho Iho Thomas mas On a Kansas City hotel register led to his arrest Thomas came camo to tho Southern lie Ho Hotel tel hero here October 15 accompanied b by bythe the woman oman He became friendly with James Osborne It a clerk clelI end and a few days later Osborne cashed Thoma check for fOt Before It came back t I protested d tho couple had left Os Osborne borne traced the couple to East St StLouis Louis Loafs and from there to K Kan Kansas m sas City b by making InquIries about the poodle At the thc latter city he cOuld find no trace of the doS dog but t a peculiar peculiar flourish with which Thomas end ended ended ed h his Is registration on the hotel ro gave the final clew clow at the tho Gladstone hotel Thomas and Mrs Irs were taken to police head headquarters quarters and photographed In Kansas City Then the woman was released and her companion brought hack back to toI I St Louis Iuis Thomas asserts he did not notI know his balance at the tho Bay Bar City hank bank on which tho check was drawn I was exhausted |