[Evans, Marv]

I had a pretty brazen friend(?) in the early '60s. He, another guy, & I were in a large department store looking at clothes & were in the outdoor jacket section. He put on a jacket & asked us if we liked it. We said yes. He proceeded to walk out of the store through the front door with the jacket on. We (the other two guys) looked at each other and started to leave, I, out the same door some distance behind the guy with the jacket while the other guy walked toward the door on the other side of the store. When the guy with the jacket on got to the door & started walking out, somebody in the store yelled, "Stop thief." He was already out the door some ways when I was just exiting. Two guys in long, trench coats came charging through the store and out the door. The guy who had taken the jacket had already broken into a run. One trench coated guy charged by me but the other stopped and grabbed my arm & said, "You were with that guy who stole the jacket." I said in my best voice, "I'm sorry but I don't even know the guy. I've seen him around at school but don't know who he is. You'd better go catch him before he gets away." The guy with the jacket jumped the wall bordering the shopping center. We looked around for him for a while & couldn't find him, so we went to his house (maybe a mile or two away). He answered the door when we rang the door bell. He was sort of an adrenalin junkey & I never trusted him again. He committed suicide in the late '80s.