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The Evening World
New York, New York County, New York
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Owen D. Conn, the '$100,000 burglar,' confessed in San Francisco on June 16 to a two-year crime spree looting homes from Chicago to the Pacific coast while posing as a theatrical man. Captured after a street shootout, he faces sentencing Saturday. Accomplice Mrs. Katherine Pope extradited from Detroit.
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Owen D. Conn Will Be Sentenced
Saturday,
SAN FRANCISCO. June 16.-Owen D.
Conn, known as "the $100,000 burglar,"
pleaded guilty to-day and will receive
sentence Saturday.
His plea ended a
sensational
criminal
career of two
years,
reaching
from Chicago to the
Pacific
coast.
During
that time Conn,
according
to
his
confession,
looted
homes in
broad daylight of over $100,000
worth of valuables.
He posed as a
theatrical man and lived in respectable
localities.
Conn
was
captured after a running
pistol fight in the street during which
he was shot in the leg.
Mrs. Katherine Pope, who was extra-
dited from Detroit under suspicion of
having
been an accomplice of Conn,
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Event Date
June 16
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Owen D. Conn, known as the $100,000 burglar, pleaded guilty to looting homes in broad daylight over two years from Chicago to the Pacific coast, posing as a theatrical man. He was captured after a running pistol fight in the street during which he was shot in the leg. Mrs. Katherine Pope was extradited from Detroit on suspicion of being his accomplice.