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Show A &LKEK THIKI'. limited Ili,nn liy bit llctlnt gad I.liiJ-d la tin Clly Jail. About ten o'clock thla morning, an Individual of unoney niovementa, en teredthvHilt Laku F.pilt.l.lo Co-o. on Flint Houth atreet, au I aaked to I o hoirn a lull of clothci. After lie had Uenwalteit on by an obliging clerk foreonie time, be laid he had concluded con-cluded thatrt pair of aiit waa all he wanted. Thlaartlclpofapparrltioielvct, ud fr mi a large number of other that weru dliplajed ou the counter. He waaahowntoa dre-ialng loom lu the rear of the lataUUhmcnt whete lie removed re-moved lilt old trowicn and replaced them br thu new. In the meantime tho clerk waited on another cuitonter, aud ociaalorjally glanced toward! Ihedreaalng room, expecting ex-pecting to - the purrliaaar of the (anta emerge thirefroiu. Itut the fellow old not come it leaat not aa expected. Inveatlgatloti allowed that hebailliftlliH bulllllnr bv the bark door. Tho victimized clerk nud another an-other attache of the itoru at ouco look thetmllaud followed the fellow by a 1 Ircultoua route to the weeteril rt nf the city, where It wm dltcoveied he had retraced hli iter, towardi Ihe nnln Ml of town. He wai Anally aiiraliended at Ihe corner of Flrat Weat aud Houtli Temple atrucU, and brought tiack to the etore, wearing Ihe atnleti cooda. When charged with aleallng, lie Indignantly replied Ibat he waa Innocent aud hail forgotten to ay Iho clerk. On refualng to make good the irchao prlco, a liollce ofllitr wai aent for. On thu arrival of the "Jiuiry up" wagon ho woo taken lo tho City Hall, where hu gavo the name of Murphy, and laid that he waa aglj 20, and waa an Willi-mail Willi-mail by birth. Hu wa boo rod on it charge of itlt Urceuy. |