Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — An Improbable Yarn. [ARTICLE]

An Improbable Yarn.

“Guilty or not guilty?” asked the Galveston recorder. ' “Of course I’m not guilty.” “You went into this gentleman’s room at the dead hour of night with a false key.” “That’s just,so, but lam not to be blamed lor the false of the key, am I ?” ’ “No levity, sir. You found him fast asleep?” “So I did, and I didn’t wake him up, cither. My family doctor says it’s dangerous to wake up a sleeping man.” “I suppose it is,particularly if he had a six-shooter handy. You took the sleeping man’s pants and stole noiselessly down stairs and gave them to a confederate.” “That’s all so, except I didn’t steal down stairs.” “You mean you stole up stairs?” “No; I didn’t steal at all.” “You are doing seme tall lying now.” ,

“And I didn’t turn the pants over to a confederate, either. He was a union man all during the war.” “You admit you took the pants?” ; “Certainly. Judge; but if the truth has to bd told, I’ll just give it to you. I went and got those pouts merely to show them to my friend, who wanted to take a pattern of them to have a pair built just like them. I was going to take them hack when I was interrupted by the police. Do you suppose if I was a stealing man I wouldn’t be in official position.” The ease was taken under advisement. The wife of Elias Cummings (colored), living near Crankflton, N. J., has given birth to four boys. Mother and children are doing well.