Took The Cobbler's Machine

What with tracing the whereabouts of ebony hued sneak thieves and replevining goods which people give no intention of paying for, Constable Fox is exceedingly busy these sultry days.

Wednesday he returned from Chelsea with a cobbler's sewing machine, which he has replevined through Justice Gibson's court, from Ira Townsend, a Chelsea shoemaker.

The machine was sold to Townsend, it seems, by the Singer Sewing Machine company, of this city, on the installment plan, but as Townsend, it appears, exhibited no willingness to pay for the machine the company decided to take it away from him. The machine is valued at $75 and is no light piece of property for a man of Constable Fox's slight build t be toting about the country while the mercury is dangerously near the boiling point.