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Show Missing Eye Provides Clue.. In Arresting Purse Stealer PHILADELPHIA. Mrs. Dora Baker, 49, was arrested on a charge of purse stealing. Frank Grube, a railroad detective, had no trouble recognizing her. The owner of the purse, Mrs. Bessie Ehmann, a nurse, of Alden, had provided the necessary clue. Mrs. Baker has only one eye. Her right eye, blind since birth, was removed re-moved three weeks previously. Appearing before Magistrate Benjamin Ben-jamin Schwartz, Mrs. Baker testified tes-tified that her handicap had led her to steal. "I can't get work with only one eye," she said. "I had to steal to live." The $40 taken from Mrs. Eh-mann's Eh-mann's purse, she told the court, went to pay overdue room rent. Mrs. Ehmann asked that the charges be dropped. Magistrate Schwartz turned Mrs. Baker over to municipal court. "Perhaps they - can provide an artificial eye," he said, sympathetically, sympathet-ically, "and Btraighten out your troubles." |