HONEYMOON FUNDS WERE GONE.
So the Groom Kept Hotel Guest's
Watch and Tried to Sell It.
He had been married just five weeks and needed more money to support his wife, his honeymoon funds having been exhausted. This was the excuse given by Richard Beasely, and employe at the Sexton hotel, yesterday, when he was arraigned before Justice Shoemaker on a charge of stealing a watch from A. H. White, a guest at the hotel.
White had dropped his watch in his bed, and when Beasely went to clean the room he found it. Hoping that White would give a generous reward for its recovery, he turned it over to a friend and they decided to advertise it under the name of a third person and divide the proceeds.
But the third person became dubious and, at the last moment, decided that he would have nothing to do with the matter. Consequently the owner got the watch and Beasely got into trouble. He pleaded guilty and was fined $5 and costs, which he paid.
