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Show DpIIST TOOK HBR TEETH FOR $3 DEBT BELLEFONTAINE, O., Dec. 6. A most peculiar damage case, resulting In a verdict for $125 for the plaintiff, waa decided' here.. Mrs. Ann Pickering sued Dr. M. M. Keep, a dentist, claiming damages for assault. She testified that she had purchased pur-chased a set of artificial teeth from Dr. Keep and had paid him all but $3, when - he called upon her one - morning, and, upon the pretense of looking to see how the teeth were working, placed his hand in her mouth, and, lifting opt the teeth, put them In his pocket and told her she might have them when she finished paying pay-ing for them. Mrs. Pickering claimed that she had suffered from Indigestion after being , deprived of her teeth, as well as experiencing ex-periencing other Inconvenience. Dr. Keep Is now under indictment for assault and battery and for larceny in connection with the same transaction. |