Law Student Got A Watch

LAW STUDENT GOT A WATCH

WHICH HAD BEEN LOST BY ANOTHER STUDENT

And Which He Claimed for His Own-Attempted to Conceal It in a Ball of Twine

A novelty in the line of theft occurred in Ann Arbor a few days ago when a student named Paul K. Shepard, '05 law, undertook to steal the watch of Rex E. Plummer, another student.  Plummer was coasting last Friday night and lost his watch on the Hill Street incline. The watch was found by Bert Chatterton, a 10-year old lad, who took it home and afterward advertised for the owner. Whether Shepard saw the advertisement or knew in some other way that the boy had found the piece of jewelry is not known. At any rate here is where he adopted a unique way in which to get possession of it.

Chatterton says that he came up to him dangling a watch fob and looking along the street for something. The boy inquired what he was looking for and was told by the student with the fob that he had lost his watch. As Chatterton had found one it was easy for the schemer to get possession of it. When he had returned to his room at 900 S. State street it seems that he feared detection and set about another plan to conceal the watch successfully. At last he hit upon the plan of wrapping it up in a ball of twine and depositing it under his dresser. This he admitted to Deputies Gillen and Kelsey, who traced the matter out with some difficulty. Shepard comes from Oaktown, Ind., and this year entered the law department.

When Shepard was brought before Justice Doty yesterday the charge was changed to simple larceny, the of value of the watch being probably less than $30. To give the young man a new start and make his burden as light as possible he was only fined $10 and $3.75 costs, in failure of which he is to be confined to jail 30 days.