A Good Samaritan’s $10 Went Straight to the Bar Tab

A. G. McLean, of Woodinville, came to the city for a visit, and last Monday night fell into the hands of the Philistines and thereby lost $10. He secured the thief, however, who is in jail awaiting an examination for robbery.

Last Monday evening Mr. McLean visited a lodge of Knights of Pythias, after which, between 11 and 12 o’clock, he entered the bar room of the Abbott house for a glass of beer as a soporific to a good night’s sleep. He found a crowd of men standing before the bar evidently wrangling over some difficulty. One man in the crowd, larger than the others, struck a man much smaller than himself and knocked him down. This aroused the chivalric nature of McLean, who, standing over six feet in height himself and being built in proportion, at once stepped into the arena and advised the big man to take a man of his own size. The individual so addressed grabbed McLean by the shoulder with one hand and deliberately put the other in McLean’s vest pocket, pulling out a $10 bill.

McLean demanded back his money, which the thief refused to give up, but instead called everybody to the bar, treated, and paid for the drinks with the $10, pocketing the change. McLean at once had the man arrested, who gave his name at the police station as E. Lowman. No date has yet been set for the hearing.