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Show sne could go Into an adjoining room for ber toilet. "Will you pleas take care of baby while I dress?" Mrs. dinger asked sweetly. Of course Sheriff Wlble would. He nd Detective Purdy amiifel themselves them-selves with fhe youngster, while t li ? lustle of feminine apparel came from j the adjoining room. Then there earn-? a plaintive voice; I 'Oh, I mu t have some onp to button but-ton my dress up the back. Can't ono of you gentlemen do it?" Sheriff Wlhle 'blushed and Detective Detec-tive Purd stammered. "Not for mine," the latter gaspod. "A couple of policemen over hero got fired, not long ago for being lu tiie joor.i while a woman prisoner dressed." "Well, I'll have to get somebody. Mrs. Clinger replied, through the por-tiers. por-tiers. "I'll on let me run over to Mrs. Fleming, next door and she'll button me up." Sheriff Wihle gve a sigh of relipi from an embarrassing position an 1 berriedly 3greed. Mrs Clinger left the house nd SherKT Wlble and D-tctve D-tctve Purdy sat down to p'av longer with the baby wbil tbey waited for Mrs. Clinger to return. An hour later thev were still waiting. wait-ing. They went to Mm. Fleming's to learn how many buttons were on tho dress that required such 11 length of tim? to button. They found Mr?. Clinger had not been there. Seattle. Wash., Aug. -President Joseph Conn of Ihe Spokane North-western North-western league club, last night soel JeJsse Baker, his fcuck left-band ptcher, to (he Chicago American league club. It Is understood that Baker Is to report to Chicago Ira-Mediately, Ira-Mediately, The Spokane club. It Is said, gets $r?,"00 and two players tor I Baker. ran wmmmm wemm w o ni BUTTON-UP-THE-BACK GOWN AIDED WOMAN East St. Louis, 111 , Aug. Frank Wlble, sheriff of Sullivan county, Indiana, In-diana, who arrfved here yesterday to capture Mrs. Lizzie Clinger, 22 ears old. wanted in Sullivan. Ind., Is mlnu.; bis prisoner. A button-un-the-bari; rowu aided Mrs. Clinger in the clever ruse by which she escaped from hioi and Detective Purdy. When Sheriff W'ible reached East St. Louis he asked the police for aid in finding the woman. He and Detective De-tective Purdy traced her to her home and there arrested bcr. "I can't go back to Indiana like this," Mrs. Clinger said. "I'll have to thango my clothes." Sheriff Wible courteously told her |