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Manner of hold-up:

| Seized by thugs in broad daylight as he|
|was crossing the railroad tracks at the |
|foot of First avenue east, Fred Butzer, a|
|stonemason of Butler, Minn., was thrown |
|to the ground, a gag placed in his mouth,|
|his pockets were rifled of $36.--_Duluth |
|News-Tribune._ |

Unusual sort of pickpocket:

| A young man in evening dress, who was |
|going down into the subway station at |
|Times Square with the theater crowd that |
|filled the entrance just outside of the |
|Hotel Knickerbocker early last night, |
|paused, knocked a woman under the chin |
|and took away her silver chatelaine purse|
|containing $20 as deftly as he might have|
|flicked the ash off his cigarette. Then |
|he disappeared.--_New York Times._ |

Unusual thieves:

| Two girl thieves not more than twelve |
|years old and small in stature for their |
|age have been operating with great |
|success in the different stores in the |
|neighborhood of Amsterdam avenue and |
|Seventy-ninth street. Five or six thefts,|
|etc.--_New York Telegram._ |

Pursuit and capture:

| After a chase along Forty-second street|
|and up the steps of the Hotel Manhattan, |
|a woman, who said she was Sadie Brown, |
|thirty-three years old, of No. 215 West |
|Forty-sixth street, was arrested early |
|today on suspicion of having picked the |
|pocket of a man at, etc.--_New York |
|Telegram._ |

Present conditions of robbed bank (second paragraph of an embezzlement
story):

| Banking Commissioner Watkins this |
|afternoon declared that he found the bank|
|perfectly sound, that all commercial |
|paper was found intact, that none of the |
|accounts have been juggled and that no |
|erasures of any kind were |
|discovered.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._ |

Unusual sort of burglar: