Mr Cramtext's New Coat single work   short story   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 Mr Cramtext's New Coat
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A clergyman buys a new ministerial coat from the apparently needy son of a recently deceased brother clergyman. Wearing it to an ecclesiastical meeting he is held up by an accident and preaches the sermon he finds in the coat pocket to a local congregation. By this means the coat is identified as stolen and arrest nearly follows ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 24 no. 291 August 1889 Z1081394 1889 periodical issue 1889 pg. 678-679
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