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Show y"rP r" ' psa pp m mm mm There are two versions of the story one is that the man was caught pilfering, pil-fering, purloining, or vulgarly termed term-ed snitchin' a gum drop from the show case; the other version is that his wages were due im as campaign manager, and that he forcibly decided decid-ed to take his own. But be that as it may, our respect-. respect-. ed feller townsman, September First, was arrested by Joseph Dee, as the first act of the latter's official authority. au-thority. When questioned by a reporter, September First refused to make a statement for publication other than a few remarks disjointedly given, that he conducted a rigorous campaign; cam-paign; under a high salary; that said salary was withheld; that he had tried every means to extract said salary from the debtor without avail; and tha now he was fully determined determin-ed as soon as excinerated from the Town Bastlle, to again forcibly get his dues; and that until he was paid up In full the gum drop case could continue to fear a raid. On the other hand, when asked for a statement for the press, the other participant said no services were rendered no sum is owing; and that iron bars are made for just sucth law-breakers. The arrest was made by Samuel Ellsworth, who sas it was merely in "the discharge of official duty" and nothing is gleaned from that, source. (It is understood from unofficial sources: that if the sentence is not communted the unfortunate victim of this deplorable affair will fit the jail more comportably as a living quarter and install a Monarch Range and his wicker rocker.) |