Clever Crooks.

How they robbed the chief of police of Cincinnati.

Columbia Dispatch – Detective John T. Norris was in the city to-day and succeeded in recovering a fine overcoat belonging to Colonel Deitsch, superintendent of police of Cincinnati, which was stolen from him some months ago.

The coat was in the possession of a colored man in this city, who had been pressed with it by two confident men, known in criminal circles as “Tubby” Smith and “Fatty” Stewart. The theft was quite a clever one and for that reason was kept quiet. Being taken in to Deitch’s office after being arrested on suspicion, the men produced a Pinkerton detective badge and said they were there watching the banks. This explanation was satisfactory and they were released. While in the office one of the men took off a large ulster he was wearing, put on Deitch’s over coat and clapping on his own again, bade the superintendent of police a hearty farewell, inwardly laughing at the manner in which he had outwitted a clever police officer.

source: Xenia Daily Gazette
location: Xenia, Ohio