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Show A Hero of a Practical Joke. A young man of about 23 is just now the hero of a select circle of friends in the southern section of the city, and in view of his peculiar history ho quite deserves de-serves to be lionized. Five years ago he was a clerk in a bank on a meager salary, sal-ary, and one time some of the same devoted de-voted friends of these days thought it would lie a good joke to pretend the bank had been robbed, and warn him that he was suspected. This a number did, only they called him up about midnight, mid-night, so as to give the joke a more natural appearance. After telling him that two hours before burglars had stolen TiO,(XK) in bank notes, they added that tho police were now on the way to urrest him as a suspect. It so happened that he had but two hours beforo been in the vicinity of tho bank, and fearful of not being able to prove an alibi, he gathered his available belongings together and caught an early morning train for the north. Of course there was a big row in the vicinity of the young fellow's home and his funny friend. had to leave town. Fortunately the young fellow was a bachelor, and ho was not hunted np. Recently ho wrote to an old acquaintance here from Canada, Can-ada, and the latter in replying to the long lost youth told him the truth about the bank jolto. Then the young fellow came back, but not as he went away. IIo rode in a parlor car and swelled around in a hack. He had gone to Montreal Mon-treal and after the first shock had settled down to work and gradually by lucky speculation had grown, rich. Philadelphia Philadel-phia Enquirer. |