Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-09
BIG CROWDS.
'ON TRAIL Of.
BONNIE BURR
REWARD $l00|
Mysterious Women Has an
Exceedingly Close Call
Yesterday at the Valley
Drug Company. E:

had very close call yesterday
afternoon at the Valley Drug Store
and even now it makes me shudder
| to think of what a narrow escape |
| had.
AS l came by for my first time
and went into the drug store no one
even noticed me, but after l had
been inside few minutes lady
stepped up to me and said the mys-
terious words, but she left out two
of the words, so | just told her that
| was not the person. But if she
had had those words right she would
have hundred dollars to spend to-
day.
Dear friends, if you say the right
words to me l will go to The Impe-
rial Valley Press office with you at
once and you can get the hundred
dollars that they offer for my caps
ture. After my scare yesterday |
walked through the drug store and
out through the Palace theatre and
back through the crowd again and
just those few minutes was sur
prised to see that the crowd had
grown to few hundred people.
On my second trip back | noticed
Mr.. Wright giving man his sub
scription to the paper, and Jack, the
newsboy, was talking to three wom-
en-. One, an elderly lady, one rather
slight in build and one young and
rather stout. | stopped right be-
side them and heard Jack say:
Don't you want the subscrip-
tion?" .'''
If you ladies had known that
was there, | have no doubt but you
would have taken the subscription.
You see you never evan tell where |
am and what | overhear.
My goodness, people, why don't
you wake up to the fact that | am
right in the crowd and with just a
little effort on your part you may
take home the hundred. Yesterday
afternoon ] did something that ]
have never done before, and that is
TO take my mask off which the con-
test is on. Now even after doing
that you should find or capture me.
| hear so many people say, as |
pass them:
81 wish l could win the hundred
dollars"
l cannot do any more than what
am doing to help you to get the re-
ward. | heard one man say, as he was
talking to Mr.. Wright that che never
was lucky" AS long as you hold up
a post and make up your mind that
you cannot find me, of course you
can't. These people are the ones that
never have anything in life.
I'll give you an idea. Just take
the paper and the subscription in
your hand and tackle everybody that
comes along. You never can tell just
how | will be dressed. So let's get
busy.
Tomorrow l will appear in front
of Moore's Bakery and, as that is
very small place, it looks like you
might have q better chance than
ever to capture me. | wish to tell
the boy at the Valley Drug Store
that the drink he fixed up for me
yesterday was very good.
Tomorrow night l will appear at
tie Tulane theatre at the old fash
ioned country store between Z and 3
and will appear on the stage. | will
have a few words to say to you that
= o. help in catching me. -
Mr. Dave Matlock, / have not seen
you in the crowd yet in answer to
the challenge of yours. AS | stated
before, it is only a pleasure for me
to try and evade capture as long as
/ can and to fool the very best de-
tectives all over the world. And from
your reputation, think that when
/ can fool you that ! am putting a
feather in my cap. So let me hear
from you in the near future through
the paper or on the street where l
am tc appear.
| thank you. BONNIE BURR.
To win the hundred dollars offered
by the Imperial Valley Press you
must have a three months paid up
subscription in your hand and the
latest copy of the paper, and if you
say the right words to me ! will walk
to The Press office and you can get
your hundred dollars. These are the
words:
pardon me, but you are the mys.
terious Bonnie Burr of The Imperial
Valley Press, the leading daily news
paper in the Imperial Valley"