Show BLUFFED BY A DUMMY clever scheme of an old tinier to ward off minions thea trinidad col chronicle relates an incident of joe bimpson an old timer who recently died in that city joe owned a piece of land near town on which ho corps of surveyors running a line lie promptly drove them off with a 44 caliber revolver A warrant was sworn out for his arrest but the deputy sheriff who attempted to serve it was held up by the furious frontiersman his gun and belt emptied and himself sent back to town quicker than he came anticipating a visit from a posse cf men took an old suit of clothes stuffed it with grass placed the dummy ina in a chair at the door of his cabin surmounted the figure with a wide brimmed sombrero and arranged a broom to give the innocent effigy the appearance of preparing to send a ballet through any one who might approach simpson then hid in an adjacent cornfield and awaited developments the posse finally arrived and catching sight of the figure in the doorway held a hurried consultation and finally beat a retreat simpson was a highly amused spectator of the performance and the next day he came to town and gave himself up |