Show costly courting Courtin fi in philadelphia I 1 philadelphia record 1 I issued ft A this afternoon for the arrest 0 of f a man on a very peculiar charge said an up town police magistrate last evening and aa there is no likelihood likely hood of bia his being ca P t U dout I 1 violate no ethics in I 1 telling y you about it this man who has heretofore I 1 been looked upon as a har handwork dwork I 1 ing honest mechanic is the father of two laughters daughters both of whom received young gentlemen callers at their home during the winter these young men when they started to go P 0 lome home one evening found their nver overcoats coata missing miming from the rack in I 1 the lial hallway away the tile theft was reported por te d t to 0 tb the police who blamed it on sneak thieves one of these young men had bad no less than three overcoats etolen stolen during the winter and the other lost two besides his hat five other young men who had bad made informal calls also missed thear coats the father of the girls waa was the most in denouncing noun cing the thief when the were discovered two weeks ago all the coata coats were found at a down town pawn brokers office and the ther description of the man who pawned them tallies 4 exactly with that of the father of the girl whether he got wind of the discovery I 1 do not know hut but for some reason he be moved away very suddenly while the young men were deliberating whether they should secure his arrest or not the young ladies are estimable in every way and for their sake I 1 do not believe any special effort will he be put forth to apprehend their father it is one of the lite strangest basei that ever came before 11 joe |