Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — A Smart Thief. [ARTICLE]

A Smart Thief.

“You are all alone here?” asked a man of the clerk in a Cincinnati cigar store. Receiving an affirmative answer, he continued: “What would you do if a thief should grab this box and run away ? The clerk replied that he would let the rascal escape, rather than abandon the money-drawer to a possible raid. “Then I’ll be going,” the man finally remarked, as he tucked the box iindey bis coat and departed.