Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-12-31

che Makes nun AeA~
%" I,ondon-made Chinehilla Overcoat.
\. y. Sun.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage left his
,oase / South Oxford street, Brook
,sn about noon yesterday. He had
len gone only a few moments when
,Ss door bell rang, and the trim little
Irish servant girl who attends to the
hon admitted thin gray-haired man,
Gearing q rather seedy-looking brown
,nit and Derby hat and eyeglasses.
ue looked as if he bad been chilled
by the wintry wind, and the girl
noticed that be bad 20 overcoat.
With an air of assurance and in a
ra,ber pleasing voice be asked If DIR.
Talmage was in, and, having been
answered in the negative, be inquired
hr Mrs. Talmage The girl, having
told him that Mrs. Talmage was up
siairs. be handed her a letter and
ssked her to deliver it. She took the
letter. which was addressed to DR.
Talmagc and started up stairs. Be-
fore turning into the ball on the sec
ood floor she heard a rustling on the
hat rack below, and, looking over the
rail. she noticed the visitor examin-
ing the four or FIVE overcoats hanging
on IT, 1t struck her at once that the
visitor was q sneak thief, and she lost
no time in hurrying to Mrs Talmage
and stating her suspicious. Mrs.
Talmage tore open the envelope and
found begging letter from "A Chris
tan 10 Distress +" She went down
stairs with the girl to see the visitor,
whose appearance had meanwhile
undergone a transformation. He was
wrapped 10 a 6ne chinchilla overcoat,
bis Derby hat bad been removed,
and a partially bald head, with a
broad, intellectual-looking forehead, /,
was exposed. The girl noticed the
change, and had her suspicious fully
confirmed.
where did you get that coat?" she
asked "You did not have it when
you came in."
Then, turning to Mrs. Talmage, she
added: That's the Doctors over
coat" AS she spoke she stepped past
the visitor and adjusted patent fast
ening on the door, which prevents its
being opened on either side.
"Take that coat otf," Mrs. Talmage
said; sit belongs TO my husband"
The man raised his spectacled eyes
with apparent establishment and said:
You're mistaken, madam; you're
mistaken
Il think not" Mrs. Talmage said;
"but let me look at it 7"
She then turned down the collar
and saw the trademark of the house
At which DR.. Talmage had purchased
the coat on his last visit to London.
Then. all doubt being removed, she
said firmly:
"Take off that coat! You're a
theft"
"0pen the door frst,n the man
said, raising his clinched fst threat
eningly, and at the same time re-
moving the coat with the ready as
sistance of the girl. As soon as he
bad divested himself of the coat, the
door was opened, aud be hastily de-
parted.
The police sent out general alarm
calling for the arrest of gray-wbis-
kered aud gray-moustached man, so
years old, 5 feet I inches tall, and
wearing a brown suit aud a Derby
hat. The description tallies with that
OF sneak thief who has been robbing
the residents of the hill Mrs. Tai
mage related the adventure to her
husband as soon as he returned
home. He complimented her on saw
ing bis most comfortable winter over
coat, but expressed his regret that the
thief, who, be said, resemhled a
broken-down minister whom he knew,
had not been captured.
MY son." be said last evening,
was up stairs at the time, and if be
had been called down there would
have been q tussle."