Typed and spelled as written:
Kay Cunningham

 

The Marlin Democrat
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, March 10, 1904

TWO NEGROES TAKEN
IN FOR SHOPLIFTING

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     Two negroes were taken in Friday night by the officers for shoplifting. They were in at Hodges Dry Goods Co's looking at some hats. When C. E. Cloy, who was waiting on them, turned his pack for some purpose, one of the negroes slipped a Stetson hat under his coat and thereafter both the negroes lost all interest in what Mr. Cloy was telling them about the hats and prices, and soon started to leave the store, in the mean time the salesman missed one hat from the stack on the counter and followed the darkies to the mouth of the stairway leading down to the first floor. At this point he thrust his hand under the coat of one of the darkies and brought out the hat. The negroes then took to their heels but were finally overhauled by the officers.


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