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Show KIEHAPPINCA KID. The Unpleasant Culmination of a Tolnt Lookout Family Feud. Wednesday Win. Johnston and wife of Point Lookout, were brought before Commissioner Sehaefi'er, charged with burglary and kidnapping. kidnap-ping. They were bound over in $1,000 and $500 bond respectively. The details of this peculiarly interesting in-teresting case are as follows: Johnston claims that a short time ago Wm. Sheen, also of Point Lookout, stole one of his fattest hogs. Johnston went to Corinne with the solemn intention of squeezing out satisfaction by means of the law. Unfortunately he failed in this and returned home fully resolved tc "take the law in his own hands." They say Johnston might have had less bad whiskey aboard. So in the dead of last Sunday night, accompanied by his wife; and daughter, he stole across the moon-lighted moor to neighbor Sheen's cabin. At 3 a. m they pounced down upon the soundly sleeping household, taking them thoroughly by surprise. The complaint says Mrs. Sheen and XJlmar Brigs, a boy 11 years old, were the pole occupants found in the house; they were beaten, bruised and pounded with a club and dragged about the premises in a dreadful manner. But to cap the climax, the boy Ulmar was actually captured and spirited away. Up to the present writing, we have heard nothing yet of his whereabouts. The case is a remarkable one and the out-come is causing much speculative comment. That kidnapping feature of the story is quite extraordinary, as it is something so unusual in these parts. It seems that family leuds in that locality have existed for the past 20 years. At one time John ston found several of his hogs killed and sunk in the Malad Riv?r. Today To-day the bones of six of his horses, shot down by some unknown hand last spring, lie bleaching in the sun |