The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-01-15
WHY Hf HFYER
 WEARS AN 0VERC0AI
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wear an oycrcoat? A man Ot your age certainly tuus a ,lsk ln not doing SO, especially during ths January weath CT"
 DInsmore shudderGd "An overeOats he saId. "l am perfectly comfortable without one. Besides. overcoats are unsafe. Let me tell you why.
 "For many years | had charge Of the finances Of Mathew Drew X Co, leath- CT men. One afternoon In winter l was SO buslly engaged that | did not notice it was past 8 o'clock and l had not made my deposit n bank. Opening thc safe. | saw that had a far greater amount of cash on hand-Over S2O,OOO than | ever kept there. We had no vault. only a little. old fashioned safe that several men could roll away and ride at thcir leisure. Before leaving the ofiicc | took out the bills. rolled them carefully In a piece oc brown pa Der and stuffed them Into my Overcoat pocket. | preferred Co take them home with me rather than leave them in the safe
 Just as ! was about Co lock up, John Trlmbau. a man who had large ae- count with us came In and Insisted on going over lt with me. By the time we got through lt was far past supper time. and ! had an arrangement with my wife that when too late for the evening meal l was Co get lt at res taurant before going home. After the departure of the customer took my ovcrcuat od the hook where had hung lt. instiuctvely grusped the bun dlc Co make sure that it was an right then started for the restaurant While there left the coat hanging on a hook where | could keep my eyes on it every moment. There were about thirty sec onds. lt ls true. during which ire en- zines were dashing past without and I turned my eyes on them. but when l looked back Co the coat it was stu there. When | had finished my sup Der. | went home and Co bed
 That night | folded my coat smooth ly and placed it under my pillow. The next morning I took lt Into breakfast with me. placing it on a chair where l could watch it wore it to the of- Zee. keeping my hand on the outside Of the pocket that contained the pack age. When | reached the office. took out the parcel. and the moment ! saw it started | had wrapped the bills in brown paper. Now they were wrapped In newspaper. With a hand Of lee on my heart I hastily unrolled the package Under the newspaper was tissue paper Within the tissue paper were a dozen pairs Of gloves. I sars ..,1 a chalr almost fin a faint
 Tue plulys.s of my faculties lasted but moueut. whcu ! arose and went over what | had done. at once tele- phoucd my loss Co the police and re ported .t as doubtless having occurred at the restaurant. where it was quite likely some light fingered rogue had taken out one package and slipped ID another while [ had been looking at the dre engines. The cont must be mine. for lt fitted me perfectly, was exactly of the same pattern and mate rial as mlne and on the collar Inside was thc name Of the Arm Of whom ) had bought it.
 That day was one of misery to ma | reported the loss Co the drm. who certainly did not take it with a very good humgr. and before noon they had an cyggr, hoottcCpcF at work Co dis cover lf were not endeayoring to GOV CT up shortage In my accounts Dur ing the afternoon a detective bad re ported that a man whose photograph was lu the rogues' gallery. one of the most expert sneak thieves in the country. had been seen In the restau- rant while | was there and they were on his track. This allayed the susp. clons of my employers somewhat but when evening came and we were about to go home without any further clew to the missing money one of the part ners told me that they were very sorry to do SO. but common prudence would compel them to lock me up for the night He then stepped Co the tele phone and called tor au oticer.
 wrote a note for my wife and calico a messenger. Meanwhile we were waltia-. when ln came TripbalL tho man wlo had been with me thc even ing before
 "See bcre. Dinsmore." be said, no knowing what bad happened and tak ing the account current from his pocket eve made a big mistake in these crpdits last night That ltem"-
 rushed upoa him frantically ano began Co examine hls overeoat thrust my hand Into a pocket and drew out a parcel wrapped ln brown paper Unrollng H. there were the bills.
 "Fouud" yelled. laughing und cry Ing hysterically.
 That vas a package of gloves yes terday." sad TrimbalL
 -That coat Is the same pattern as yours. Diusmore." said the senior part ner.
 "And the same goOds," added the junior.
 Trimbau and both had on our over coats. and both took them on for iD- spection. We bad bought them at the