Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1882 — An English Robber at Home. [ARTICLE]

An English Robber at Home.

A gentleman was standing in one of the shadowy arcades of thd» Coliseum at Borne, where he was somewhat hru'sqely hustled by a passing figure.' With a qqick instinct he clapped his hand to his watch pocket. His watch was gone ! He darted after the thief, who turned sharply round, at the kame time clutching a watch. “Give me that* !” A dash !—the stolen property was recovered The startled robber disappeared, and the gentleman wenfcthome to boast of his adventure and essv.-. What was his opji stern ation, on entering his bedroom, to find his (Am wafefc, which lie Jmd forgotten to put on, staring him ' In. the face from the mantelpiece t He had been thA thief and the other wretched man Mad. stumbled over hjm in the dark, and- when overtaken and stopped was merely clutching hisfewn wfttch, which he had not the nerye to resette from thp.tonrist. That tourist is nowtabwn to a tride and admiring circle of fnfcnds as the' “Bandig of the Coliseum.*’- i -//oncZon 7'ryt/i.