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November 5th, 1923.

For the second time within recent months, police were confronted yesterday with a murder mystery involving a girl bandit,

and just as when Richard C. Tesmer, an insurance operative, was shot and killed at the garage of his home,

the girl and the man with her escaped.

Yesterday's victim was Matthew Edward Lehman,

18 years old, a former stenographer who lived at 1540 Barry Avenue.

While accompanying watchman Albert C. Stemwettle on his rounds, young layman stumbled upon the girl and her accomplice,

trying to jimmy their way through the rear door of the Delson Manufacturing and Knit Goods Company at 3051 Lincoln Avenue.

The day was just breaking and the forms of the would-be burglars were scarcely discernible in the

shadows of the building. Though unarmed, layman leaped from Stim Weddell's car and confronted the

burglars.

What are you doing here? he demanded.

The startled couple wheeled about.

The man drew an automatic, and as the girl screamed, he fired three times.

Fatally wounded, young layman staggered through the gateway of the Little Black enclosure

and ran north through the alley to Berry Avenue.

There he fell.

At the first shot, Stemwettle, apparently panic-stricken, made no attempt to use his own gun,

but jumped from his car and dashed wildly for the nearest doorway.

This drew the bandit's fire. One of the bullets penetrated the fleeing watchman's right arm.

The girl, recovering herself, accompanied the murderer in his flight through the alley and east on

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