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Show uses overcoat as bank Negro Proves Ownership to Garment by Disclosing Location of Savings. New York. Monroe Smith, a negr-. insisted in the court of special sessions ses-sions tlat he had not stolen the overcoat over-coat of Leslie Davis while he entertained enter-tained Davis in his home. Smith said t lie coat was his own p'.-iperty and he had a right to pawn it. 'I can prove I own the coat." said Davis. "There is nine dollars sewed in the lining." Promptly the justice ordered the lining ripped open and the money was found. |