Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — Robbery by Mistake. [ARTICLE]

Robbery by Mistake.

Two ladies, while General McClellan was at dinner at the Mhssasoit house, Springfield, Mass., s on his passage through that city, ventured to rob a military cap, which they supposed to be the general’s, of both its buttons, tearing them out in a very unfeminine manner, to be preserved as mementoes of that military chieftain. The mortification of their feelings and the redness of their faces can only be faintly imagined when one of the aids carelessly as usual put on the mutilated cap, and the general put on his own,' which was intact. Those buttons were not preserved, but the story has been.