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Show THIEVES WERE A HEARTLESS CREW r Kansas City. August 31. Out In hi little cottage near tho duburbs of the city, M. V. Wandell. an aged musician, today mourns Ihe loss of hlj Stradlvarius violin worse Mian he has at any time since it was stolen stol-en from him a, year ago Yesterday he located the third and last of the men who stole the instrument instru-ment and from the tblei's j,s oame the same story that his two partners part-ners hail told that the violin bad been destroyed. Sn the police have told Wandell there is nn hope of ever getting the violin back. Th Instrument In-strument was more than 1 r.o yearn obV It had been handed down to the musician by his ance.-tor.i. He played play-ed for a living and to him there was no music so aweet as that which the be'qved Stra.iivarius gave forth. The rubbers set upon him one night and tore his violin from his arms. He remembered their faces and located all of them unaided. Two are in prison. The third has confessed. |