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Show WOMAN HIS I DOWNFALL Chicago Burglar Says pj Minister's Wife Started Start-ed His Career of Crime 0 w 1 an Francisco, March 11. Owen Cona. the Chicago burglar who poaed by daylight in the lobbies of fashlon-0 fashlon-0 ' afcte hotels rb a capitalist, nod made di j a specialty of robbing vacant apart- taenia and houses at night, did not u wort rngl-bandcd , hie partner wbr a young woman who carried an auto- toa Tootle pistol and went out with hini cm hi Jobs. This Information was given out today to-day by tbe chief of police following the dlecovery of Conn'a Identity laBt night, when he confessed to more ' than 100 robberies in Chicago, San rrecclsco. Lo Angeles. Pasadena, 0 Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose. Woman Deserts. Early last month the woman de-I de-I faertod Conn, taking with her between ijSO.OOO and $40,000 worth of Jewelry ihaLf their looL Her arrest is expect-j expect-j 3 soon In an eastern city. In Conn's confession, he said he had been led into crime by the former wife of a Chicago pastor, who took advantage of his infatuation for her to squeeze money from him. "She started me In robbing flats," eald Conn "In one or two Jobs she helped me. Then she wanted me to hold up a man. I refused and she got a younger man to do It. Then she ran away with him and I came to the Pa- cific coast." San Francisco. March 11 Owen D Conn, who confessed here yesterday to burglaries which netted him more than $100,000 in the last two years, amplified his confession today regard ing his beginnings in crime in Chicago, Chica-go, but gave no details of his opera- I" i tlonj there, "I was infatuated with the wife of a ,former Chicago minister." he said . "and Bhe made me get money for her. She Induced me to rob a number of J flats In the daytime, occasionally as letlng. Then she wanted me to hold g up a man. but I refused and she got a younger man to do the Job She ran away with him and I came to the Pacific coast. I had been working as H a bookkeeper in Chicago, where my mother and sister live " Conn Is 36 years old, dark haired, quiet and unassuming and well cdu cated He was captured here Saturday Satur-day after a running fight with citizens citi-zens and police, in which he was se , merely wounded, and hl6 confession was made at a local hospital. About $30,000 worth of loot was found in his room at a fashionable hotel rn |