Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1915 — Stole Feather Bed. [ARTICLE]

Stole Feather Bed.

Topeka, Kan.—Cold, and wearing wet clothing. Will Harkens, walked into a restaurant on Bast Fourth street. Harry Crumbine, the waiter, bailed htm as friend and asked him to spend the night at his place on Monroe street. Harkins accepted the invitation and spent the night on a downy feather bed. Crumbine had to be at work early the next morning, but he did not disturb the stranger who slept with him. About noon Harkins came to the restaurant and feelingly thanked Crambine. All afternoon Crumbine felt the glow of having done a good tern tor his fellow-man, and that night he went to his room happy. The bed didn't look as high as usual. He punched it and his hand struck the hard springs. The feather tick was gone. He called the landlady. She was bewildered and scolded about the loss. After spending the night on it, Harkins had carried the feather tick away with ftim, He sold the feathers to a mattress maker. The police arrested Harkins, and bo was lined S2O by Judge R. M. Yates tor petit larceny. _ j. jJii —