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Show women declared, however, that th 1 at belonged to h woman friend called -Money Dug." a local ncgres, jmhI officers were dispatched to fly -1 her. mm robs A WHITE M William Johnson, reported to the police station Saturday night that he had been held up and robbed by n regress. He said the woman loo'-t blt purse, which contained his wages for the past week, by slipping up bfhind him and getting It Into her possession before he really knew what the "carrying ons ' were. John-ron John-ron is an employe of the Southern Pacific railway, and Is quite an eld ciiy man. Following the tip given them by the two colored women the police arrested another colored woman by the name of Lor-c Lor-c ne Lear, who it Is claimed lost her, hat in her haste to escape with John von's pocketbook. Detective Plncock and Wardlaw traced Ihe woman described by the two suspects to a colored "hang-out'' 1 at Twenty-seventh street an. I Wall avniue, known as Noah's Ark. Sh had left by the lime the officers ar-livcd. ar-livcd. but the tip was given thera that be had started for the Banquet na-loon. na-loon. Going directly to the place mentioned mention-ed and ascending to the rooming hense. the woman was discovered r.rleep In one of tho rooms. She was taken to the station and confronted w ith the two women who had Informed Inform-ed on her as well a.s the man whom she is accused of robbing All three ; Identified her as the woman who , owned the big green hat that Johnson John-son had picked up In tho street after h.viug his pocket picked. She was locked up, but was allowed to send a telegram to a friend In I Salt Lake asking for $14. oO with which to reimburse Johnson and $150 for ball money, all of which she expressed ex-pressed a willingness to "borrow" I hat she might be released from "unjust "un-just detention'' at the police station The police have not yet received a reply to her telegram. In making her escape the ncgress dropped her hat which was secured aud may proe the means of apprehending appre-hending her. Johnson Is an unsuspecting sort of a man and has had little experience with criminals and their methods. He stated to the police last even-in? even-in? ttrat he had just received his week's wages amounting to $U and vas starting for home with the money mo-ney eecurc, as he thought, in a rear 1 trousers pocke'.. While passing th-.' ! pickle works on Wall avenue be I tv.een Twenty-fifth street and Twen- J t;--rourth street he suddenly felt a hand reach up under the back of bis coat. He turned quickly only to find a medium sized negress wearing wear-ing a big green-trimmed hat In the i ct of "lifting" his pocketbook. The woman was too quick for him ami having secured the book she turned quickly and darted away in the direction of the diivway back of the pickle factory. Johnson started after her and In her efforts to elude him the negress lost her big hat in the roadway. Johnson was unable to locate Iter in the d.irk and soon abandoned the pursuit. He recovered the hat, however, how-ever, and took it to the police station where the oflictrs were detailed on the case. The notorious Susie Johnson and a colored pal from Salt Lake were soon gathered In and made to dou the hat before the victim of the robbery, rob-bery, but they did not quite reseuibk the Impression that he had formed of the one who robln d him. Hoth I |