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Show Man or Monkoy. In a moment of wrath a showman In South Dakota seized a club and pounded pound-ed a freak creature so severely that it died. If tho freak was human, tho showman Is guilty of murder. If It was a lower animal the showman will go free. And here is whero the authorities, authori-ties, who havo tho showman under ar-relt, ar-relt, are confronted with a question to puzzling that It would worry tho very wisest of caliphs. Before tho freak died the showman was anxious to have It understood that the creaiuro was at least half man, but now that the thing Is dead, he Is sure it was all uumkev, lie called it. the mleslnu link nnd boasted of the fact that nobody was able to say positively whether It was brute or human, but tho grand Jury havo taken tho noponBlhllliy of binding hire over for ululevRii llimtuh the chances seem to ho about equally good that they are putting him In peril of his life for executing veugeanco on a monkey. ... . It Is certainly a curious caso and one whero the legal precednts are decided-i decided-i ly scarce.- -Cleveland Plain Dualor. |