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Show NOIPT WOK JF THE POLICE 3 While J. D Adney, of tho, Bear Rlv- I cr valley, stepped to the ticket wlu- I doV to purchase his ticket at the Un- H l? J - Jondepot yesterday afternoon his fur- jSL ir. - overcoat, valued at $75, disappeared fBH T ' Ifvrli J.hailCiyhrc lie ha(L le't it 1 THV a few minutes provIoTrsTMr. Adney. m ater noU,y,nP the police, boarded a I M i Within half an hour after the theft ) Capt. C C. Brown and Officer Rus- i" sell found a mail on the street wcar- Ing the overcoat. When questions by r the officers he stated that ho had i , v' bought the coat from a stranger for '- f $7.50. He accompanied the officers, 1 i and vrfthin a short time they bad lo- ,i x I I cated the man. ', X Ho gave his name as John Johnson, j ' ? and was locked up on a charge of petit I ' " i, v larceny. When arrested Johnson had ' : ;' spent but fifty cents of tho nionoy ho i had received for the coat and the pur- jt ' chasfr was therefore out very little as . a result of the transaction. |