Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1904 — He Wouldn’t Be Searched. [ARTICLE]

He Wouldn’t Be Searched.

“Several years ago I took a late train from Boston to New York,” said a man in business in Kansas City. “In the morning I was awakened earlier than usual by the porter, who said that a robbery had been commuted on the sleeper during the night, and that all the passengers would have to get up. Some one had taken six SIOO bills from the clothing of a gentleman who occupied a berth in the middle of the car. Every section had been taken before we left Boston, and ns the train had been almost constantly in motion it seemed certain that the person who had committed the theft was still on the car. The porter said no one had been aboard hut the passengers, and that none of them had left. It was proposed to search everybody. A man who had a berth directly opposite from the one who had been robbed, objected. lie told Ills name nnd said any one might easily find that he was a man of good reputation. In the meantime some officers boarded the car. nnd after a little sweating got the money from the guilty one. Then the passenger who had refused to be searched asked the officers to examine his pockets. „ This seemed strange, hut he Insisted. In an Inside pocket they found six SIOO hills. It was merely a coincidence that he should have the same amount of money ns the other passenger had lost, and In exactly the same denominations, but he knew that under the circumstances he could hardly establish his innocence, How was that for a case of circumstantial evidence?” Star.