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Show ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BURGLAR WHOSE j CASE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION j ill $rz HIS? At the age of eleven years little Isabella Magulre, of Oakland, Cel.. I a burglar. She I now under observation ob-servation at a hospital and she ha developed a strangely marked criminal crim-inal propensity which I In entire contrast con-trast with ber physical appoarance. Nothing about the child' appearance glvea a hint of Inherited taint. Yet, acoordlng to the mother of the little girl, she ha an abnormal desire to teal tblng Just for the sake of stealing. steal-ing. Possessed of a wandering spirit, h ha repeatedly run away from home, roving about, despite her youth. In strange place and under conditions that only a professions! tramp would select. Again, she would steal. Anything Any-thing from tuonoy to a slate pencil was unsafe near the child's reach. One of her offenses, a year ago, waa tha then of f ho from a trunk In which her mother had hidden the monoy. Tho child, after taking the coin, parted with It In a row minutes, giving giv-ing the whole amount to a companion, Why she stole It I beyond hor to mnke satisfactory explanation. "Something "Some-thing told me to take It," I her only statement In tbe matter. Her conduct at school wa such that It was Impossible Impos-sible to. keep hor there, ln aplto ot bor mother's many effort. |