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Show IYOUNGSHOWMAN 1 TURNSBURGLAR 'Twas Fascinating, He Said, to See One's Name on Billboards N'ETV YORK. March 21. n ambition am-bition to be successful showman caused caus-ed Miles Boucher. 20. t become an . j able but careless burglar. He was In an uptown station house ell and the pride of his lif "Bou h-cr's h-cr's burlesque players'' were stranded Bome$rhere Inland Boucher told police that traveling evpensos of his burlewqn,. wov r. it her high, that their earnings did not meet them and that rather than let the show "flop," he decided lo resort to theft. It was fascinating, he declared, to pec one's name in glaring colored letters let-ters on the billboards And so he had committed more burglaries than he could enumerate. Caught in a fashionable Park avenue ave-nue apartment house, Boucher went for an automobile ride -with dete lives through the districts of Manhattan, where the more wealthy folk reside, and pointed out scenes of his recent operations. Then he took them to an uptown bank to his safety deposit box. It contained only a biank check, made out to his brother, Harvey, that he might In event of Miles capture, fill It in for enough to bring the burlesque home. But Harvey was unable to do this, as he, too, was arretted as an alleged accomplice |