Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — London Fog. [ARTICLE]

London Fog.

'A London fog brings out hundreds of thieves, but it also brings out men who are wanted by the police. A detective told a representative of the press about two curious Instances of thieves being caught in this way: We had been on the lookout for weeks for a swindler who had stolen bonds in bis possession. The inspector who had the warrant at last declared that the man must have got out of the country. But one densely foggy night the inspector happened to be In a quiet street not far from Bedford square, when a stranger, against whom he nearly ran, said: “Can you tell me precisely where I am? I’ve got mixed up somehow.” "Follow me and I’ll show you,” said the officer. And he did show hixh—to the police station, for the man was the very one he had been looking for. In another case a sergeant, in one of the thickest fogs ever known, politely helped a lady in distress near the Kensington rodd. The lady couldn’t even * recognize her own house among several all alike, and the sergeant, on her behalf, knocked at a door and was answered by a man. The lady did not live there, but an hour or two afterward I arrested the man who had come to the door. He was a German baker, the head of a large flrm, and we had been seeking him for months.