Connecticut western news., 1878-06-27
LULU FRANCES PRISONER.
What followed q Y0unG Lady's EChase after -s-,ag.e.,T fa ,PickpOCket.

What followed a Young Lady's EChase after gsIsT ..ta Pickpocket. .z
 l Miss Lulu Prange, girl about twen- | ty years old, left her home, Brooklyn. 1 She was dressed in ashort black walking suit, white hat and waving feather, and she carried her pocketbook, in which was
 seven dollars, in her hand. Just as she was nearing De Kalb avenue man slipped up behind her, half stopping, and forcing her fingers from around it, snatched her pocketbook, and started on a full run down toward De Kalb avenue. After moment of surprise and hesi- tation, Miss Prange collected her facul- ties, gathered her skirts out of the way of her flying feet, and started in full pursuit. The man outran her, but as he turned the corner she uttered piercing scream, .and called out to him, You had better bring that pocketbook back. [" He hesitated, as if about to comply, and then ran, Miss Prange following. ., A butchers wagon dashed along just as Miss Prange reached the corner and stopped 8 moment, painting for breath, to watch the fugitive. "What is the matter 2 called out the driver. Miss Prange, without answering, tossed her parcel into the wagon, climbed swiftly over the wheel, and dropping into the seat beside the astonished owner, said
 "Catch that man." The driver did not wait for an explanation, but whipped up his horse. ...-, l The horse moved bravely along, and
 rapidly lessened the distance between pursuers and pursued. The frightened fugitive cast pitiful looks behind him, and seemed ready every moment to give up, but he ran along until the wagon
 came up to him in De Kalb avenue. There several young men ran to his side. and one of them touched him. He stopped, tore off his hat, and stood pant
 ing, the precipitation standing on his forehead in beads. Miss Prange jumped from the wagon, and, walking straight toward him, said, ..,....-.......,... ... .'.....
 What in the name of heaven made you take that. pocketbook ?" .4. .e--
 He handed her back the pooketbook, and then gave her the money which he had taken out of it and as he did so he said: ..tMiss, I was desperate. The minute I took it I wished I hadn't; but I was druv to it, for my wife and two children are starvin', and had to get somethin' to feed them" aa a. ...
 He turned an appealing face to the young lady, and she seemed at once to be tou ched by it. A crowd of men and boys had by this time collected about them. The man, shamefaced, frightened, shrinking from the throng that pressed around him, in very desperation at last looked to Miss Prange for help. She said: q won't give you over to the police until see if your story is true. Take me to your house and let me see for myself" asss4u ssss5 a5sa.5 4..F .ssai
 They started off side by side, followed by the crowd. Miss Prange turned on the men and boys behind her, and said
 eff you don't leave us alone, I will have you arrested. Then they scattered, and the frail girl and her sturdy prisoner hastened ahead. Alderman Harry Daw. son, however, offered to- attend Miss Prange, and she accepted his escort, but seemed far more interested in her other companion than in him. [" Pm almost crazy about it all," said her prisoner.
 The hard times had taken his once steady employment from him he had only been able to get.work for an hour or two, now and then, and his wages had been twenty cents an hour. He never drank, he wal
 eager to work, and he hoped every day to get something to do, so that he could feed and clothe his family. "I neve, did such thing afore, Miss said he
 and hope I won't ever do it again I wish now that I had killed myself, anG then I wouldn't have done it." Hi name. he added, was Theodore Hollis He was but thirty-eight years old; but Miss Prange saw that his hair was as ) gray as though he were fifty.
 When the three reached Hollis's home in DeKalb aven ue, near Waverley, hi
 wife and two pretty children were found in apartments on the upper floor of the house.. All was neat in the rooms, bu
 the place was stripped of everything 5 that could be pawned. MT. Dawson , would have entered with Miss Prange F but she requested to be alone with tho } family. She locked herself in witl : them, and made 8 systematic search O 7 the place. All the food that she found 3 was the half of 8 soda cracker. -.... " Now, miss," at last said Hollis "what are you going to do with me ? /! !" This is what" said Miss Prange 5 taking out her pocketbook and counting
 out half of the money that was in it 8 "Take that now, and will bring yol l more yet" Mrs. Hollis sprang up, and ? throwing her arms about the girls neck
 kissed her. Hollis fell on his knees l grasped her hand, and covered it witl 8 kisses. Miss Prange broke down. bu between her sobs she managed to sa, something more in sympathy, when tn : heavy tread of men was heard in tn ? hall. A rough knock sounded througl : he dismantled room. Miss Prangt : hastily wiped her eyes, and peeping ou = saw four policemen standing at the door
 "You can't come in ,here," she said = closing the door. The officers laughed
 and then pushed into the room, and sail s that they had come for Hollis. He gay
 himself up, and although the youn l |