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A Stranger And Was Taken In

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Day
30
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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He was a atrangor and ivas taken in. A party oí íriends, strangers Ín ik.' city. were stamding in front of H. J. Brown'B drug store Uoiiday, looking at sorne bicycles, when one remarkeil, "I n-ever rode one in my lilis bnt '111 bet a box of cigars that I can riide tliis wh,eel to the post fice cormej without getting off." A eommpjr.on took the wager. Securiug Mr. Brown's $ermission to use the wlieel, lie niouiited and started down tihe sidewalk. Marshal BaníLeld has a weather eye uot for hlcycle riders, and this gentleman had TMt gone far before tliat officer was after him hot tiloeks, and captured Mm just as lie had won the wager, and was starting back. Tlxe stranger protest ed, toat p;otiesbs didn't woik. He was taken before Justice Pond and fjned $2.70. In t!ie meantime liis companions uwe standing back and enjoying tlie joke. He won hls cigars, but uever agaiii will attempt to win anottoer lot in the samie manner - mot in Ann Arbor.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier