The Pity Of It All

Chicago, D c. 5 - "You are chai-sed with larceny; are you guilty or not guilty {'' sald Justice gereten yesterilay moruiug, addressing Louis Raeiahardt, a well-dre-isjd, goodlooking you ig man, wbo stooii before biin with boned head and tba tears dropping down 0:1 bis go rl-rimmed eyeelassss. "I ara guilty," said tbe prieoner, in a low Toice. Manager Roberts, of Peter Van SohaackfiC Son, wholesale druggists on Like Street, wal the yoniu mau'a accuser. He said Rbeinliardt hiid le n employed by the firm for several years :is a saíesman. He "as considered an bone3fc, fai.hlul employé uutil Saturday lasr, n ben $2u, whicli ba I just been taken 5n on a bilí of good9, disoppeared. It was beliftveJ tbat Richanison taken the money, and he was watcbed. Wuuday l'e ■was oaiight in tbc act ot taking $13 ■wbich a customer had paid him. Then hl" houso waa searebed and a miscollaneous collection of goods, cigars, valuabla drugs, and otber artieles wbich he had stolen irom the store, was found. Mr. Ptoberts said the stealnig hnd been going on for a year and a half, and it was believed that Rueinhardt had taken altogetber from $l,5J0 co tï.uOO worth of goods. Just then tbeprisoner's wife, who had been litthig aniong the spectators in the court room, rusbed forward with a cry and threw her arms arounri her husbar.d's neck. "Ou, save him?" sbe cried. "Don't ba hard on bira, Jlr. Roberts. Let me keepmy husband. Louie, spenk for yourself. You drank too muco wine, or you would never have come to this. " Louis siid not a word, but the tears ran down his tace, while bis hysterical wife was led away. He was held in $600 bail to the criminal court.