Accused Of Stealing Clothes

ACCUSED OF STEALING CLOTHES

  Charles Baker, a negro who came here last Sunday evening from Detroit and engaged a room at the boarding place of Hugh Johnson, on Huron street, was arrested Tuesday morning in Detroit.

   He is accused of getting away with some wearing apparel belonging to Lafayette Crosby, who is a boarder at the Johnson house.  Officer Chas. Fox left here for Detroit that afternoon to bring Baker back to answer to the charge.

   The arrest was brought about through the alertness of Officer Fox, who has been on Baker's trail since he took his exit last Sunday night.

   The too frequent use of cocaine is the cause that Charles Baker, a negro, gave for his downfall, when he was found guilty of larceny Wednesday by Justice Gibson and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail.

   Baker is the chap who came here last Sunday evening from Detroit and stole some wearing apparel from a border at Hugh Johnson's restaurant on Huron street.

  Officer Chas. Fox was notified of the theft.  He traced Baker to Detroit, where the Detroit police arrested him by instructions of the Ann Arbor officer. Baker confessed his guilt, but said that he did not know what he was doing when he took the clothes as he was under the influence of cocaine.

  It is said that cocaine has quite a large sale among the negroes here, a number of whom are constantly under its influence.