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Show ROBBER HAS BAD RECORD Admits Having" Woman Wom-an Aceomplice in Long List of Burglaries San Francisco. Mar. 11. Otto D. Owen, alias Owen D. Conn, alias Frank Dale, the burglar who yester-iaj yester-iaj confessed that during the past two years he had realized more than 1100,000 on robberies committed In Chicago, Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Jose and San PranolSCO, today admitted admit-ted to the police that he had a woman wom-an accomplice who was the directing genius of his series of crimes According to Owen, this woman shared half and half on all the plunder plun-der secured She went about armed with an automatic revolver, ready at all tlmos to defend herself. "On February 2S," said Owen, "we had a rp.arrel and she deserted me, leaving for the east With her share of the plunder. While I am not certain cer-tain of her destination, she probably went to Chicago, where she formerly rr-t Med.'' While Owen refund to reveal the Identity of the woman to Interviewers, Interview-ers, It Is believed he bap made a full confession to the police. Late this afternoon Chief of Police Whltii wired the police of eastern cities to be on the lookout for her, and it ie predicted predict-ed by the polleo that nn arrest will be made within twenty-four hours. Prior to th woman's departure, she lived with Owen at a residence on Haight street and the fifty rob-berli rob-berli s he has confessed to were com-mltte, com-mltte, in the immediate vicinity. Owen steadfastly refuses to reveal the identity of the Chicago minister, whose wife ho alleges caused his downfall .. . HAS BAD RECORD Chicago. Mar. 11 Owen D, Conn, the burglar under arrest in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, who confessed to flat robberies robber-ies totaling more than $100,000. came originally from New York, where he was known as Dale Sonn, according lo police record here. The man is snld to have a criminal record since isOs and to have spent a large portion por-tion of his time in jails and reformatories. reforma-tories. Conn's record hero has been traced by a private detective agency, which has recovered most of the valuables be pawned. Police here pay little credence to Conn's story of Infatuation Infatua-tion for a clergyman's wife. Conn first was arretted In In Cincinnati for burglary. In 1S99 he was arrested In Cleveland on a similar sim-ilar charge. He was convicted of burglar) In New York in 1900 and sentenced to the Elmira reformatory under the name of Ctnrles Harvey He was arrested In 1000 in Chicago and convicted of the robbery of slx-teen slx-teen flats. He revealed the name of the person, who received the stolen goods and was let off with a six months' sentence. Escapes from Prison He was convicted of Mat burglaries in Milwaukee. Wiv. a short time after af-ter he finished his term here, and there was sentenced to a term In the house of correction He escaped after af-ter a few months, but was recaptured recaptur-ed in Chicago and returned to finish Dill term Conn came l ack to Chicago after having paid his debt to Milwaukee Milwau-kee justice and a few months later went west Conn's burglaries were all of one type, according to detectives here. He wan what Is known as a flat burglar nnd confined his operations to first floors. Ho would ring the bell of an apartment at noon. If the bell was answered he would as for someone who did not live there II It was not answered he would "Jimmy" the front door without loss of time. He never went above the first floor and always worked In the daytime in his operations here. It was said. His loot recovered In San Franclsro has been underestimated, according to privat detectives here. An agency-Is agency-Is said to have jtocelved n bracelet from Conn's cache In San Francisco which was worth more than $10(10. Detectives of Cincinnati, Cleveland. Kev York and other cities, are look-inp look-inp up the man's record |