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Show ODD SENTENCE FOR THIEF Given Ninety Days in Jail for Stealing Ninety Ladies' Night Gowns From Clotheslines. Folice of a Detroit station are kept busy explaining to persons who wander wan-der into the back room there and find it looking like a Monday morning In the back yard of a young woman's seminary. Draped from chairs, tatles, doorknohs and ropes are sixty dainty, filmy silk nighties of all hues and sizes and conditions of servitude. They are, so the explanation goes, the results of the labors of Joseph Labedz, who Is a fancier of these garments. gar-ments. Labetlz has been in Detroit four months, having come from Chicago. Chi-cago. In that time he has collected ninety silk nighties from various back yards In the north end. he admits. He was arrested when Mrs. Sydney O. Mills missed three of the dainty garments from her washline. Police were notified. They arrested Labedz. He was wearing all three of the nighties as underwear. Labedz pleaded guilty before Judge Charles L. Bartlett ln Recorder's court. Tie was sentenced to ninety days in the house of correction, one for each nightie. |