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Show CLIPPED Off j Thief's Act Is Without Precedent in Records of Crimes New York, May 22. The police here are looking for a thief whose act of petty larceny is without precedent In the records of the New York detective detec-tive bureau. Under cover of a crowd at the open air suffragette meeting In Union Square a few days ago, he clipped off twelve inches of hair from the head of Jeanette Toplltz, a 1G-jear-old girl student In Columbia university. uni-versity. Her lialr was worn in a long braid down her hack, fastened with a ribbon rib-bon at her neck. The end of the braid hung below her waist. She did not discover lir loss until she was about to retire for the night.- The police believe that the 'person who clipped her hair was either a joker with a perverted per-verted conception of humor or someone some-one who wished to sell the hair. |