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KILLED BY H|GHWAYhAk
Robber Shoots Down Mrs. Mize in
Chicago Street.
REVOLVER Is FIRED IN TUSSLE

Victim Tackled Footpad W len he Tried
10 Seize Her ,Purse-Thief Escapes
With His Booty-Crowd Pursucs Him
Down an AIleywny-Friend Of Mrs.
Mize Gave Alarm.
Chicago, Ill.-Struggling with a foot
pad at Fifty-eighth street and Wash
ington avenue. Mrs. S. e. Mize. a we'll
to-do New York woman. was fatally
shot. She died soon after her reno
val to the Del Prado Hotel, q block
away, where she was a guest. The
robber. whom the police regard as an
amateur escaped.
Mrs. Mize and Mrs. Z. A. Wilson.
near friend, from Los Cruces. Mexico
who also is stopping at the hotel. left
the Del Prad0 early in the evening to
do some shopping in Fifty-seventh
street. They were halted at Fifty
eighth street by tall, slender young
man, we'll dressed III light gray suit
of clothes.
"I want that purse" he exclaimed,
grabbing Mrs. Mize's well-illed pock'
etbook Mrs Wilson did not wait to
see what happened. She ran down the
street to the hotel, crying loudly for
help.
Mrs. Mize resisted the robber. at
tempting to retain hold OIL her purse,
and with her right hand tried to grab
the thief's revolver. The next instant
there was q shot, and Mrs. Mize sank
to the sidewalk. wounded in the right
hand and in the breast.
Mrs. Wilson and maid, Hannah
Canlin who was witness to the rod
berry and shooting from the opposite
side Of the street, alarmed the hotel
people and the neighbOrhood The rob-
berry occurred almost directly in front
Of the residence of Alderman f. l..
Bennett.
The thief ran west in the alley open
ing in Fifty eighth street, with crowd
behind him. He easily distanced them.
He retained the purse. which it is sup
posed contained several hundred dol
lars.
Mrs. Mize was carried back to the
hotel, where she died soon afterward
The body was removed to Joraan
Morgue.
ut all happened so quickly" said
Mrs. Wilson. that l could not reallZe
it until I heard the shotNand' saw Mrs
Mize lying on the sidewalk, with the
thief running up the alley. The man
had followed us two blocks, and we
both noticed him, but did not think he
was q rObber."
Mrs. Wilson would not tell the police
anything about Mrs. Mize. and 1t re-
Guired urging to get her to say any
thing about the robbery. This silence
on her part led the police to believe at
first that there was some other e4pla-
nation than robbery for the shooting.
The Hyde Park police were at the
scene a few minutes after the shootlnS'
and Inspector Hunt drove up in MS
buggy. A description of the thief was
sent to all police stations. Detectives
went to look for the man at the Whlte
City and other amusement parks ana
especially in Washington Park, where
the Inspector believed he might nave
hidden himself. Other detectives were
sent to watch all elevated stations.
"It looks to me as though the man
was an amateur from the kind OF
work." said inspector Hunt. 1t IS
possible that Mrs. Mize in reaching
for the revolver caused the weapon 10
explode" =,
Mrs. Mize was forty-two years ola,
and came to the hotel with Mrs. VIII
son OH July 25. She was a widow, her
husband having died year ago.