Show I I I I I New Ne York Herald aboaf circumstantial Yi Mace desce said I a man who wIlD was eating fac luncheon in the lAwyers club last Jut Friday reminds me oC of an aD episode that occurred ia In the week of f last Jut Christmas that might have bave placed me mein meIn mein in very very verr suspicious position n if good I fortune favored me for tor dream circum circumstantial evidence was clearly against IatI I me meI I was w ia Is i on 0 of tile the lb Me big Herald Square Sq department stores selecting I Christmas gW and was wu at the Ole Jew Jewelry cIty elry counter when I was wag made aware ware I that something unusual un was wu transpiring ing Inc The clerk attracted the attention of a man n whom 1 I 1 supposed to be a shopper hopper but who turned out to be bea bea a detective and he be stepped up to a woman who stood on n my 1117 left and aDd po politely requested her bar to accompany him to the managers office odice She went without a word and the clerk told me that a gold chain which was w being belac shown to the u woman had bad mysteriously disappeared I am sure that I have haye made no mistake said aid the clerk for CO I saw w the chain in the womans hand and aad then It went out of sight at We W are troubled very much by In a few minutes the suspected wo we woman WOman weman man walked out of the store tore with a triumphant air and the detective re reproved reproved reproved proved the clerk by telling aim him that he had bad made a blunder mud and would have to report to th tb er I thought nothing more of the ue matter until I reached home borne and aDd took off oft my m over ove overcoat overcoat coat when I found the missing miming chain in its Ita outer left hand baad pocket po The clever shoplifter had bad evidently dropped it there when the detective spoke to her Suppose S that 1 I had bad been summoned to the managers office oMee in instead Instead instead I stead of the woman what sort rt of show showing showIng ing j would I have ba te made in the face of such evidence I returned the chain the following morning and arid was wu invited to luncheon I by the manager maer who was wu satisfied of the womans woman I guilt and therefore no I longer feared an sit action for tor damages |