Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — [?]ered Too Late. [ARTICLE]

[?]ered Too Late.

During the shower the other day a man was passing up State street with an umbrella ovej* his head, says the Detroit Free Press, when a stranger stepped out of a doorway, grasped the handle, and said: “I've been laying for you for a month! I claim this is my proparty.” “Ah! exactly—l see!” stammered the other, and he surrendered it without protest or struggle and bolted for a doorway, while the other walked off. “Was it a stolen one?” queried a man who had witnessed the affair. “Well—er—Well, I suppose I picked it up somewhere,” He stood looking after the umbrella for a minute or two, a sad expression on his face, and then suddenly uttered a great oath and slapped his leg. “What is it?” asked his companion. ‘ ‘By the big spoon, but what a fool I was. I now remember that I stole that umbrella in New Orleans a year ago and that fellow could have had no right to it!”