Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — FAT MAN IN STOLEN CLOTHES [ARTICLE]

FAT MAN IN STOLEN CLOTHES

Police Stop Man of Enormous Proportions and Find Him Arrayed In Many Suits. New York.—“ That fellow just ahead is a lot too fat for his height,", said Acting Captain McLaughlin of the Alexander avenue police station to Patrolman Foster as the two were strolling along Third avenue. “He does seem about as broad as he’s long,” assented Foster. “Let’s follow him,” said McLaughlin. So the policemen trailed the fat person to the bridge at One hundred and Thirty-fourth Btreet and Third avenue and there stopped him. Inspection showed that he was wearing an unusual amount of clothing. “What’s the matter with you?” asked McLaughlin. “I was sick and afraid I’d take cold,” was the reply. The walking clothing store was peeled in the police station. The police say he wore twelve coats, six pairs of trousers, an waistcoat, and one unfinished skirt of the hohble variety. He did not exactly wear the skirt. It was strapped around his waist. The prisoner said he was William Young, twenty-four years, a plasterer, with no home except when he lived with his sister at Paterson, N. J. McLaughlin says Young admitted that he broke into a tailor’s shop at Glover and Westchester avenues and took the clothing.