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Show j f I Vanity Ruling Passion I of Noted German Crook 2 Berlin. Bride in his personul V I 5 attire so dominated Bernard S I I'ulkowsky, a convict, that when i a new charge was discovered I 2r against him before the explra- i f tlon of his sentence, he es- ( f caped from prison to replenish S J hla tfardrobe nd then Inter vol- i j ' i : untarlly returned to court clad with sartorlul excellence and 9 I carrying himself with jaunty $ . j pride. X i J Before the date fixed for his i . appearance on the new charge, j I Pulkowsky asked the warden for 5 I i leave of absence to purchase the t ! proper clothes, saying : "It is ! 1 1 quite out of the question for me ; to appear before the high court 9 i - i ) In this squalid prison dress." S j When his request was refused, X ' ' he simply made his get-away, i i leaving behind a courteous note i to the warden in which he 5 it wrote : "My sense of decency $ j simply won't allow me to ap- S pear before the court In prison 4 clothes. But don't fenr. I shall 9 ; t not fall to be there at the prop- S j er time." And he was. T |