After a1 exciting chase over the roof-tops Rue Lafayette on August 19 a deserter from the U.S. Navy was captured patrol from the U.S.S. Tutuila.
The deserter, former Machinist's Mate Lawson, ran away from the }U.S.S. Canopus, a submarine tender, about two months ago while that vessel was here undergoing. repairs. He was subsequently. traced to Harbin, Tientsin, Tsing: tao, and other cities, but his can-was solely due to information given by a landlady at 662° Rue: Lafayette, When the patrol arrived at the house, Lawson, who was in pyjamas, crawled onto the roof from the second-floor room he was Joceupying. Some members of the patrol followed and a thrilling Fhant ensued. Lawson gave his pursuers the slip for a time by dodging into the attic of an unloceupied house, but, a little too Jdaring, he was arrested while in the act of crawling back through. the window of his erstwhile lodge
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