Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — Kleptomania. [ARTICLE]

Kleptomania.

The paragraphist opened his typewriter, adjusted a sheet of paper, lit his pipe and sat for a moment immersed in thought Then he clicked of a single line of copy. He glanced at what he had written and a look of surprise came across his classic features. Then he gasped, shrieked and went into a fit of hysteria. His colleagues rushed into the room, but he was beyond human aid. In ten minutes he had laughed himself to death. Then one bethought himself to look at the last lines those fingent, now cold and still, had written. At the top of the all but unsullied sheet appeared these words: “Another shoplifter arrested in one of our big stores has been dismissed with a warning, and her name withheld from the papers. What used to be called a crime ls.npw yclept a mania—” That was' all. But it had aaught the paragrapher unawares.