Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — Detecting a Thief. [ARTICLE]

Detecting a Thief.

Several petty pilferings had take*, place in a Berlin clubhouse, and among the things taken from the visitors’ clothes were cigars. A detective “fixed” some of the cigars with am aniline dye at the mouth ends. The next morning the servants’ mouths were examined, and the tongue and lips of one fellow were found stained with dye. Thus the rogue was dim* covered. , 1