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Show 00 HIS LANDLADY SOMEWHAT OF A DETECTIVE On condition that he pay his landlady land-lady her bill of 4.9?a James Sweet wae ghen a suspended sentence by Judge Reeder this morning. Sweet ! agreed to the proposition and the af- ; fair was arranged to the general satisfaction sat-isfaction of ail parties I Sweet was arrested last evening as he was about to get on a Bamberger' 'rain and was locked up In the jail J when his landlady, Mrs. John De I Groot. complained that he was leav- I lng the city without paying his bill? According to tbe story told by .Mrs De Groot, this morning, she Is some I detective. From 0 o'clock jraaterdaj morning until eening she kept her eye upon the boarder because it was pay day Twice she approached him and asked him for the money he owed her but he claimed that he had not received his check Mrs. De Groot excused the man for his misstatement, declaring that "Jim' had been drinking and did not kuow what he was doing After the landladj had told her story sto-ry Judge Rcedor asked Sweet It he was willing to pay the bill and Bweei agreed to do so. When he Becured his money from the sergeant and paid the lady a suspended sentence was pronounced. |