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Show Woman Fallen on Pavement Is Holdup's Decoy Now comes the human Interest bandit. He appeared on the. Dlxl highway last week and at least one trusting motorist lost his worldly goods as a reward for gallantry. The new holdup method came to light In a police report made by Oliver Oli-ver Bradley of St Louis, who told authorities that ho stopped at -oi it on the Dixie south of Momence to tld i a woman and was promptly relieved of money, watch, and other valuables- "I noticed a woman lying at the eide of the pavement," he said "She signaled sig-naled me and 1 stopped, thinking: sh-had sh-had been Injured In some road accident. acci-dent. As my cat panic to a halt two men appeared from behind aoio bushes and stuck me up. Tho .woman got to her feet at once, smiled, anJ thanked me for my 'help ' " |