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Show jBURM AT WORK IS FRIGHTENED BY A WOMAN'S CALL' Working within a few feet of the lady of the house, about 9 o'clock last night, a burglar attempted to rob the home of H. L. Bell at 612 Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street The fellow was frightened fright-ened away by Mrs. Bell, however, leaving in his haste the articles he had planned to take away with him. Mr. and Mrs. Bell and son Edwin left the house about 8:30 o'clock In their automobile for a trip down town. Mr. Bell remained downtown, but Mrs. Bejl was taken home In the car by Edwin shortly after 9 o'clock. In the meantime, the burglar, who had evidently watched tho departure of the family, had cut a small hole out of a window screen at the side of the houso and entered Edwin's room, the window being open. This room was evidently chosen for his first operations op-erations because it waB the only one in tho house In which a light was not burning. Mrs. Bell had decided to remain on tho front porch to enjoy the cool evening air and, being seated near tho front window of her son's room, heard the visitor working Inside. Becoming nlarmed, she went to tho edge of tho porch and called John Portley, a neighbor. Tho burglar, as well as Mr. Portley, heard the call and while the latter was making his way to the Bell home tho former made his getaway. Entering the room as quickly as possible. Mr. Portley and others found that the burglar had turned virtually everything topsy-turvy. The dresser drawers and Edwin Bell's trunk had been ransacked and the contents scattered scat-tered over the floor while two revolvers revol-vers and other articles which the burglar had bundled together to take away with him, were lying on the floor near the window in which they had evidently been piled. |