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Show Thief Caught. One of the thieves at the fire on Friday night was a- soldier named George Gibney. He stole a large overcoat and a valise, tlie property of Mr. Connors, a guest at the Clift House. The thief was afterwards arrested ar-rested with the overcoat iu his possession posses-sion somewhere iu the eastern part of the city, and taken to the City Hall. Yesterday he was sentenced to labor fifty days on the public streets. The valise, which contains little of value except to the owner, was- dropped in the Eleventh Ward, and will probably proba-bly be returned to Mr. Connors. |