Show a stove tho incident often illustrated in plays of a man carrying off a stevo has no basic truth said halman carmody still tho idea seems so preposterous post erous that people to laugh at tho incident when placed before them on tho stage tho theft that I 1 ever knew to parallel it occurred not so years ago when an habitual criminal in new york city was given six months in tho penitentiary for stealing a dinners tin ners stove alie evidence proved that the criminal had a record which included everything from tho theft of a paper of pins and a wagon wheel down to a water gauge of a steam engine and the stoye in question tho dinners tin ners etolo was shown in court it was a very old fashioned largo and ungainly looking affair which one might imagine would be tho last thing that would attract tho attention of even ft chronic burglar the top was cylindrical and perfectly open for the purpose of draft to this top was attached the handle now tho stove had a good firo in it and had been act out on the pavement to obtain extra came the thief must havo found it a very hot object to handle and yet ho ran with it a dozen blocks before ho was caught and arrested st louis globe democrat |