Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Tricking the Bobby. [ARTICLE]

Tricking the Bobby.

A Dublin eccentric a shhrt time ago entered a purveyor's shop and bought a ham. Having paid for his purchase, he requested that it should be hung outside the shop door, saying that be would call back for it The customer then paced np and down outside tbe shop till s policeman came In sight, and just as the man in bine canght his eye he grabbed the bam and bolted. The constable, however, soon collared the thief, as he thought, and hauled him back to the sbop. Having explained tbe nature of the alleged crime to the sbop assistant, he asked the latter to charge the offender. “But,” sMd the assistant as he realized the joke, “it's bis own bam. He was quite at liberty to take It in any circumstances be chose.”—London Answers.