No Crime To Present Bill

NO CRIME

      TO PRESENT BILL

A Stolen Gold Watch Re-covered in Ann Arbor.

VERY SMOOTH SCHEME

Invented by a Theif to Get Away if Found in a House.

Detective Hugh Kane, of the Detroit police force, was in the city Wednesday to recover a ladies' gold watch stolen in Detroit Aug. 29 from Miss M. Gertrude Leland. The sum of $5 had been borrowed on it in Ann Ar-bor on Aug.30. The thief immediately went back to Detroit, and was shortly afterwards. He is a bright-looking colored man, about 25 years old, who have his name as Henry Williams in Detroit and as Henry Smith in Ann Arbor. The watch was located by a ticket he had on his person when ar-rested. He was working a smooth game, which may be best described by telling the circumstances of the theft. He has walked in the front door of Mr. Leland's house in the daytime, and right upstairs, meeting no one. The watch was lying on a dresser at the head of the stairs. He pocketed it and started downstairs with a letter in his hand. He was met by a lady and said to her: "I was sent here with a letter for you." She took the letter. tore it open and found a note asking her to pay the bearer the amount of the bill a Detroit business house had against her. She turned the letter over and said that the name to whom it was addressed was not hers. "Why, this letter is not for me." Said Will-iams, "What did you open it for, then?" He started away, but the lady, suspecting something, called to her daughter to telephone for a policeman. Williams, who was going out, turned and said: "Why, that's all right. It's no crime to present anybody with a bill, is it?"