Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1871 — Exchange In an Omnibus. [ARTICLE]

Exchange In an Omnibus.

The New York Mail tells of a Brooklyn lady who took passage on a Broadway omnibus with only $5 in her purse, and who was particularly struck by the appearance of a fellow passenger, who was dressed in the most magnificent style and wore on one. of his Ungers a superbdiamond. After getting out of the omnibus she found her pocket bad ltcen picked. Tho editor goes on to say: She wondered, all the way there. who had picked her pocket, and blamed, alternately, all the honest people who had ridden with her in the stage; but she never for a moment harbored a suspicion of the gentleman of the rings and things. She got home and told her neighbors, who consoled her in the usual neighborly way, by “ hoping it would he a warning to her; ” “ she was very lucky to get off so easy,”, etc., etc. She told her husband, who laughed at her till she cried, she says, then kissed Iter and gave her $lO to buy a new purse. A friend dropped in after dinner, she had totcll the story all over again. Strange to say, he suspected tho gentleman with the solitaire. “Was he in when you paid your fare?” “ He was.” “ Could he have seen your purse, and where you put it ? ” “ Why, of course he could ? ” “ Did he get up and then sit down again —the second time beside you '! ” “ He did, but ” “ Where’s your pocket ? " “ Why, here,” said the lady plunging her nervous fingers (for she was excited by the cross-questioning) deep into the pocket of the dress which she still wore—- “ right here. And bless me !” said she, as she withdrew her hand again, “as I’m a living woman, but here’s the ring!” True enough. Tlie exquisite, in abstracting the purse, had left the solitaire behind him. A Broadway jeweler values it at $1,500.