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How A Thief Robbed Himself

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Oileofthe l'unniet thlDgtthat hap] during my experience Wl ut U one day to culi npoo a man who was coi flned in the jail opoo the charge of burj lary. The reputation of the man w.-. be was kaown to bc u expert thlef, an tlioiijrh trarglary bad bees luid kt bis don everal tiznes, nocouriction bad been oi I. 1 responded to bis mosssge, am at once recognizrd bim a man w hum had previm-ly met. He lold me Ml rtorj denying, t eoaree, bjegulltof thispartict lar crime; hut I was eonvineed be kne more of the matter tlian he liad told DM He desired that 1 should takt' bis 01 hand, and at auy rate to get liim out O buil. Wlien 1 askcd l,im if lie liad mi. money, he promptlv MMWered in the aflii mative, and told DM to po to the OOt-DOtU of a certain laloOOi and apon the raften ii a corner I woiild tind i roll of moiiey ootl taining 0OO. "Tiike tliat and ate It," s:il he. I followed bil directions, (baad a pack ajre just where he mU t was, and oarriw it to my ollice. Tlien I uurolled it, and ti my utter aniazemeiit f'oimd tliat it contain ed i:!,.V)(t. I stndiei! over the matter, hu couid not, for the lift me, gxplalo the dif ferenoe in the amoonta, fCoOand $3,060, called apon hlm the neztday and tojd bin I had ceenred the paekare. "Nowi" sak he, "I want to gel out of here as aoon a P"--ille." I at once looked into the teii naony agalul li in, bond it was weak, pro OOred liail, had lii.s exainination, and h was dlsebarged thruugh the want of arl dence. 1 Ie was presen) at the examfatatloi only thmii.'h my as.snranee that convlctĂ­oi COUld uot hc had. He was protu-,. in hl thanks and liberal in bis tieatment of "my telt and Mende in the wavof ditaks"ani i. He bade me KOod by an.l said hl WOuId leave the ity lor good. N'ot 1 WOU nd about the $:!,."j:o. Sim moiitl]." afteiw ard this man wal in jail, aad when broubt up lor In said lie had DO inonev to hlre a Iaw . volanteend to flefend hini and in clearing him. He then told me thi would pay me tome time lor nu si aad proeeedeil tn teil me tliat iie wouK have had plenty of ineans f a pal ol lii had not mt back on liim and ralsed I jilant of 8,560, whieh he had put awaj months before, bilt wliieli be wat at raid ti goatter bimself. The (act of the matter was that when he told me where to gel ilu $000 he fortrot himsi'll and nve the direc tions of tin; big pile, whieh I (rot, w hile hla

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News