Judge Rules the Poor May Steal Umbrellas When Raining

1911

RIGHT TO COP UMBRELLA

That's If a Man is Penniless and Has No Money, Rules Judge

Chicago, May 24. — "A man has a sort of right to steal an umbrella when it's raining and he has no money to purchase one," ruled Judge Heap in Harrison street municipal court.

"Don't let it happen again, though," the judge told the prisoner, Leslie Jearney, who was allowed to go free.

—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1911, page 4.