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Show CHiLDTHIEF Police Called in to Put the Children Through Third Degree Chicago. Oct. 12. Fifty-four second-irade second-irade pupils at the Lyman Trumbull public school, none over 7 years old, will he put through the third degree today by the police. One of these fifty-four children, it is charged. U .t thief, and the other .".1 know the Identity Iden-tity of the culprit but have persistently persist-ently refused to divulge the name. Monday Miss MrKnrct Palmer, tr. teacher decided to give her pupils a practical lesson In tell ng time. P'or mi, purpose she unpinned a so'd watch from her shirtwaist and, holding hold-ing before the children, she gave the ksson. While fifty-three were intc-rested In the ffort to distneiih time by the means of the l ny dial, one small child apparently resolved to acquire possession posses-sion of the timepiece. Soon the opportunity presented itself. it-self. Miss Palmer, laying" the watch on the table, stepped Into the hll to uneak to another teacher. When Miss Palmep returned the watch had disappeared Yesterday was spent by Miss Palmer Pal-mer in an effon to learn the name of the child thief. Kach pupil was questioned ques-tioned separately. Not one would say how or by whom the w-atch bad been, taken. LaM night the affair was reported to tho police, and today defectives will question the children In the attempt at-tempt to wring the secret from one of them. |