Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — A Cool Th[?]ef. [ARTICLE]

A Cool Th[?]ef.

A boarder in a fashionable up-town house, who hud been delayed one -night- last weeki -arrircd -htmTC' as ar~ seedy-looking individual came down the front steps with an armful of spring overcoats. The boarder recognized some of these as the property of friends in the house and stopped the man. “Where did you get those?" he demanded. A light smile flashed over the man’s face as he replied: “I’m a tailor around the corner, and the gentlemen sent for me to press anti—fix their coats.” The boarder suddenly remembered that his own coat needed repairing, so g .ve it to the man, with instructions to fix it with the others and return it. When he got down to the table he said to one of the boarders: “Jones I met the tailor with your coat as I was coming in, and I gave him mine, too.” Jones, looked up wonderingly. “What are you talking about?” he asked. The boarder explained, and in a moment there was a panic. Several of the coats were afterward recovered in a pawn-shop, but the thiol is slil! at large. —New York Sun.