Wouldn't Drop Eggs to Stop Pickpocket

1920

Thief Gets Away With Purse and Twenty Dollars

ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 25. -- Frederick H. Wedemeier was carrying eggs when he got on a Grand avenue car at Chouteau avenue. When he reached home he had the eggs, but his pocketbook, containing $20, was gone.

Wedemeier was jostled by a negro on the car, but he had to take care of his eggs, he says.

When he found his pocket had been picked, he had to find a place to put down the eggs. And by that time the negro had left the car and was three blocks away.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 1.

Comment: It's kind of nasty seeing it phrased that way for us today. But 1920, there's a lot worse out there!