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They Stole An Overcoat

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
January
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

WERE FOLLOWED TO DECTER AND CAUGHT

Two Tramps Who Stole Monday Now in Detroit House of Correction

While Jacob Bruckner was cutting ice on the river Monday afternoon he left his overboard in the tool house. Returning for his pipe, which he had left in the overcoat pocket, he found that the coat was gone. The officers were notified and Deputy Sheriffs Red Gillen and Pual Schall were notified. They found two tracks running from the tool house to the Michigan Central tracks and thence west some distance. They were in a cutter. They struck the tracks at the waterworks station, at Fosters and at Delhi, to find the same tracks still pointing westward. Owing to the many bare spots they couldn’t make fast enough time with the cutter to catch up with the owners of the tracks and so telephoned. When the owners of the tracks marched down the railroad track at Dexter, they found Deputy Sheriff Charles Stebbins, of Dexter, waiting for them and they were taken into custody. They had the overcoat. 

They gave their names as John Schrader from Denver, Colo., and John Hoag from nowhere, and their ages as 27 and 28. They were brought before Justice Doty Tuesday and sentenced to 65 days in the Detroit House of Correction, to which they were taken that afternoon.