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Show oo WOMAN TIED AND HOUSE IS ROBBED Salt Lake. Tan. o. Threatened with a revolver, choked, hound and gauged, Miss Mary Ohribtensen living at .".7 South Seventh West street was forced to watch the ransacking methods of a burglar who robbed her home at an early hour yesterday morning, according accord-ing to her story to the police Alone in the house. Miss Christen-sen Christen-sen tried first to bluff the burglar into in-to believing that her brother was upstairs. up-stairs. But when the thief laid hold of her bracelet and other Jewelry gh -en to her by her mother she resorted to pleading, and the man left them behind, saying that he had no use for them. Miss Christensen. who is a school teacher, heard the burglar in the house, she said, and started out to investigate Stepping suddenly from a closet, the man pointed a revolver at her heaad and ordered her to keep still. Catching her wrists he tied them securely behind her back with the mask which he took from his face. Then fastening a handkerchief In her mouth as a gag he threw her on a bid and began his hunt for valuables. With unexpected consideration he unbound the hands of Miss Christensen Christen-sen before leaving the house, warning her to keep still. For an hour she waited fearfully before crawling out through the window of her room and going to the house of a friend, two blocks away From there the police were notified and two patrolmen were sent to investigate. Miss christensen accompanied them to the house where the burglary had ooccurred. The black cloth which had served first as a mask for the robber aand later as a bond for the woman ? wrists was found, as was also her rifled purse and ber tracks leading from the window of her room to where she had climbed over tho fence in leaving the house Agitated at first by the experience which she had j passed Mlss Christensen smiled about I It before the policemen had completed their Investigation, i no |