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He Stole And Got "cotched" At It

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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There was quite a little rifiie of excitement Saturday morning over the report that a burglary liad been committed that morning at the residence of A. M. Clark, Esq., on S. División st. It seems that at about 8 o'clock in the morning, while working about the house, Miss Altie Clark heard a noise in her room, and going thereto she discovered a negro, who appeared to be appropriating whatever there was handy to get hok! of. Instead of fainting, and giving the fellow an easy exit from the house, she asked hino "Whnt are you doing liere?" with an accent on tlie here, that the thief did not appear to like, for he at once made a hasty departure. Miss Clark at once ran after liim and called for lielp. As soon as a couple of wheelmen gave chase she went to a telephone and notifled the officers. Tlie wheelmen followed him to the bridge crossiug over to the ïsorthside, when he slipped away from them. He then went around to the Ann Arbor R. R. tracks, examined the pocketbooks he had taken, took the money out of oue and hid the other, walked leisurely around to a beer saloon an S. Ashley st., where he refreshed himself with some beer and a lunch, and then started out for Ypsilauti. Sheriff Judson in the nieantime had got on bis trail, and telephoned to Ypsilanti to liave someone couie this way and meet him. Deputy Cash Warner with another officer started on the road, and when near Carpenter's Corners the fugitive caught sight of the officers and skipped into a neighboring orchard. Here he climbed a tree and came near succeeding in evading discovery. Like Zacheus of old, when discovered the fellow came down, and was brought to Ann Arbor and jailed. His name is Louis Peek, and liis record in this line is not an enviable one. He took from the Clark residence two gold watehes, two valuable pins, and two pocketbooks, enough so that he can be kept out of mischief for a period of flve years, if the court sees fit to give him the full extent of the law. All of the property except a small amount of money was recovered.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier