Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1915 — SPOTS MAN IN HUBBY’S SUIT [ARTICLE]

SPOTS MAN IN HUBBY’S SUIT

Eagle-Eyed Chicago Woman Lands the Wearer in Prison After they had led the culprit away an aged Englishman among the spectators in the police court remarked: “They ought to put Mrs. ’Awkins on the force; she’d make a rippin’ good ’Awkshaw." Mrs. Caroline Hawkins, the woman referred to, while walking, noticed a man ahead of her wore a striped suit closely resembling one belonging to her husband which was stolen from their apartment on Monroe street some time ago. As a consequence she had the wearer, William Neuman, locked up at the Desplaines street station. Neuman pleaded guilty before Judge Caverly In the Desplaines street station. "Make him take the suit off, judge, demanded Mrs. Hawkins, after Neuman had been sentenced to eight months In the house of correction. “He can’t wear my husband’s suit eight months at the Bridewell.” An old suit was substituted and the change was made in a cell.