A Diamond Ring Stolen

A DIAMOND RING STOLEN

And A Chelsea Watch Was Missed.

BOLD HOBOS BLAMED.

The Ring Still Missing but the Watch was Never Stolen.

Chelsea, Mich., Aug. 16. - Mrs. August Mensing had a diamond ring valued at $35 stolen from a kitchen table Monday forenoon. She had removed the diamond ring, which was a highly prized gift, from her hand together with a band ring, and laid them on the table, while she did some work. She stepped for a few minutes out into the yard and while there saw a tall, dark complexioned tramp dressed in black with a slouched hat, going through an adjoining yard, putting something in his pocket. When she went back to the house, the diamond ring was gone and the band ring, which was with it was left untouched. The officers were notified and tracked the tramp a little west of the village out there trace of him was lost. The question is asked, what would a tramp do with a diamond ring. The officers, however, say that a tramp usually has a pretty good idea of the value of a diamond and that they manage to dispose of them for a pretty good price.

Last evening, a hobo was arrested in Chelsea suspicion of having snatched a lady's watch from her dress at the depot about 8 o'clock last evening. A hobo traveling as an umbrella mender and imbibing freely, in sporting parlance a "mush-fakir" who while in Chelsea tried to fit a lady's handle into a gentleman's umbrella, was snoozing on a truck in front of the depot when Mrs. Anna Gilbert rode up on her wheel. They engaged in conversation a few moments and afterwards Mrs. Gilbert missed her gold watch which she usually wore in her belt with a gold chain around her neck. She notified the officers and while she and Constable Jacob Staffan were at the telephone office sending word to Dexter, the umbrella man, who had disappeared, leaving his traps at the depot, returned for them and was nabbed by the village marshal. The boys who stood around said he showed every evidence of guilt. An hour later Mrs. Gilbert found her watch at home, where it had been all the time and the hobo was released.