Stealing Books From Rooms

Under Pretense of Having Permission of Owners

A RECENT EXAMPLE

Of How Cheeky Some Men Are in Securing Books Probably to Sell

Two German students who have rooms at the residence of Wm. H. Koon, 510 William street, returned from their vacation Tuesday and were considerably surprised to find a number of their books missing, including one volume of a valuable two-volume French dictionary and a number of other books. On investigation the young men were informed by Mrs. Koon that several days ago a tall, slender young man came to the house and went to the rooms occupied by the young men and after a short delay came back with a number of books. Mrs. Koon accosted him and he told her he was a friend of one of the young men roomers and had his permission to get the books. She said nothing more and the slick stranger departed with the books. However, the student who owns the books knows nothing of the alleged "friend" and had given no one permission to get any books. The student whose books were taken did not care to have his name mentioned in connection with the affair. 

This is by no means the first time this sort of thing has happened. About the time college closed a similar case occurred. A young man went to another young man's room and walked away with some valuable medical books, took them in full view of occupants of the house, but he was supposed to be a friend of the young man whose room he visited, and no word was spoken to him. There is a suspicion that possibly there are persons doing this sort of thing for the purpose of disposing of the books.