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It Did Look Suspicious

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A robust young man, wearing a thick terra cotta overcoat, and a somewhat eonsumptive-looking companion, minus an overcoat, left a well-known Chesnut street cafe together at a late liour on Saturday night, saya the Philadelphia Record. The former generously tendered his warm outer garment to his shivering companion, who gratefully accepted it for the walk home. On turning the corner of-Sixteenth and Locust streets the pair were closely scrutinized by a big policeman. Arrived at his home, the thin 'man returned the coat to his stout friend, and the latter started back toward his hotel on Broad street. When he reached the corner of Sixteenth street the policeman grabbed him. "Pretty slick guy, yon are!" he claimed; "but I'm on to that little overcoat racket. I guess you got his pocketbook, too." "What do you mean, sir?" demanded the indignant citizen. "You just take a .ide to the station-house," mildly urged the cop, "and teil the sergeant how you managed to get into that other man's overcont." Protestations were in vain. The mad man, with the terra-cotta overcoat, had to submit, and only the presence of his thin friend, whom he promptly sent for, saved him from a cell.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register