The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 11 Feb 1905:
"THIEF, PREHAPS, MASHER CERTAINLY. HENRY MARLIN WAS SURELY POPULAR WITH THE
LADIES.
Secured Two Rings From Fort Wayne Girl and Turned Them Over to Other Sweethearts - News
of the Police.
Harry Marlin's popularity with the ladies was the cause of his presence behind the
bars at police headquarters yesterday. He was placed there by Detective Charles Rulo on
the charge of having stolen two rings from Miss Mary Metzler, who clerks in a store in
this city. Harry may not be guilty of theft - he says he isn't - but the fact remains
he must be a horrible masher. He had in his possession several epistles which might
indicate that his thoughts frequently revert to members of the fair sex.
Marlin says that Miss Metzler gave the rings to him. He says he did allow a girl at
Monroeville take one of them and a girl at Payne, O., to wear the other but he secured, in
return, a ring from each of the girls. Miss Metzler says she allowed Marlin to look at
her rings, that he then kept them and refused to give them back though she frequently
asked for them. The trinkets are worth about $5, it is said.
The young man, who is about twenty three years old, came from Antwerp, O., and for a
time was a street car conductor. He intends taking an examination with a view to securing
a position in the Panama canal service. When arrested he had a seven-chamber revolver of
22-calibre on his person."
Note: name in headline is Henry Marlin. He is subsequently referred to in the article
as Harry Marlin.
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