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It Did Look Suspicious

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A robust young man, wearing a thick terra cotta overcoat, and a ■ somewhat consumptive-looking companion, minus an overcoat, left a wellknown Chestnut street cafe together at a late hour on Saturday night, says th Philadelphia Record. The former generously tendered hi3 warm outer garment to his shivering oompanion, wbo gratefully accepted ít for the walk home. On turning the corner of Sixteenth and Locust streets the pair were elosely 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, you are!" he exclaimed, "but I'm on to that little overcoat racket. I guess you got his pocketbook, too." "What do you mean, air?" demanded the indignant citizen. "You just take a ride to the station-house," mildly urged the cop, "and teil the sergeant how you managed to get into that other man's overcoat." Protestations were in vain. The mad man. wlth the terra cotta overcoat, had to submlt.and only the presence of hl thla rrlend, whom he promptly sent for, saved him from a cell.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register