Monday, Feb. 20, 1928

Catch-Scamps

Canny was the advertisement which the Chicago Tribune had printed in the current issue of the American Medical Association Journal; certain of its success.

One Robert M. Crowe, Negro and not to be confused with Robert E. Crowe, State's Attorney for Cook County (which Chicago entirely occupies), had assaulted a white woman, and escaped.

Fiend Crowe is 35, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, slim, weighs 140 Ibs. His hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well.

But Fiend Crowe has cancer of the stomach. Inevitably he must go to a doctor, best of all catch-scamps, thought the Tribune which advertised in the doctors' magazine.