Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1915 — Atlanta Thief Specializes in Electric Lights [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Atlanta Thief Specializes in Electric Lights

ATLANTA- —The Fulton county, Alabama, courthouse has been invaded re cently by a mysterious burglar. His operations are the most daring . recorded in Atlanta in a long while. Officials are stirred up, also sorely

perplexed. The burglar’s specialty is electric lights. While two “eagleeyed” officers mingled with the crowds in the courthouse and with officials in the various offices and courtroom, watching for the thief, the latter made a raid on the seventh floor and stole 21 globes, leaving the private offices and courtrooms of Judge T. O. Hathcock and L. Z. Rosser, Jr., of the municipal court bare of lights. A day or two before the thief cleared the courtroom of Judge H. M.

Reid on the sixth floor, of its lights, taking 12 globes. Judge Reid saw the thief —a well-dressed young white man —at work in the courtroom, and, when discovered, the latter posed as an electrician. Judge Reid asked the stranger to place a light in one of his anterooms, and the “electrician'’ obligingly promised to do so. A few minutes later Judge Reid found all of his electric lights gone.