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Show Iturns burglar forjpicture San Francisco, Aug. The army the bench. Industry, the professions and society have heen weighed In a hunch against heaut and beaut) Il8 tipped the beam. The photograph ol Miss Emma de Velasco, the Fortola beauty, winner of the statewide contest con-test which resulted in her leing de clared the prettiest girl in all California Cali-fornia has aroused such a passion In Fred Sexton, hotel clerk, that be has heen Inspired to burglary to cam possession of the print. Miss de Velasco is the poster model mo-del for the Portoln Festival, to he given in San Francisco October 22 to 25 next, celebrating the 4nith annl vorsary of the discovery of the Pacific Pa-cific ocean by Balboa Sexton's confession is today in the hands of the police. "I just couldn't belp it I had to have her picture to cherish forever. Sexton admitted, according to Detectives Detec-tives Earle and O Donnell He Is held "ii a burglary charge, accused of smashing the plate glass display window of George Fraser to get the official photograph of the Portoln heauty In the same window w pictures of .Major General Wood, Iml-e I .'in l,,r lr W SJrnt I cn. ciety Bnid club leader, and a score of others well known on the Pacific coat. "I took them all." said Sexton, Sex-ton, according to the police, "bui 1 was going to return every one except Miss de Velasco's. I felt that I could not live without it." It Is charge! that he broke the window several niahts ago At lira he denied his guilt, but flnall could no longer suppress the tale of his love for the heauty. |