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A Desperate Way To Raise Money

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
July
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Abcrat the most desperate thing I ever heard of in the way of money raising cfcme to my professional notice some years ago,"said a detective to me. "Coinplaint was made at the office that a diamond stud, valued at over a thousand dollars, had been stolen from a certain up town house. I was detailed on the case, and after a few honrs found the stone, which had been pawiied for $800. "When stolen property is found at a pawnbroker's the amount advanced on it i retnmed to him, either by the owner or the thief , if his resonrces wül allow af such a thing. The law protects the broker, and it is proper that it shonld, but the capture and conviction of the thief is a necessary factor in such cases. "This time no trace of the burglar eonld be found. "The owners pro ved property and the brilliant was retumed to thera. It represented at this stage a clear gain for the rascal and a dead loss for the pawnbroker. "It was not long bef ore we had our man, though, and then there was prompt conviction, a sentence of one year in the Elmira ref ormatory and a vain search for the owners of the property. "The matter dropped from my mind in the rush of other business, until one day I learned the secret of the whole operation. The theft had been the deed of the son of the 'robbed' family. They were sorely in need of money, and had resorted to this way of getting it. When called on to reimburse the luckless pawnbroker they were apparently penniless. The thief had then gone free, and all the parties interested had dropped from sigfat. "That fellow was paid, or rather paid himself , at the rate of three dollars per

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News