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Show - A Susceptible Clcvolander. Tho man who used tomanagoboxiog shows at a town on ono of the groat lakes told tho following story of a well laid plan going wrong: "Wo had been hanging up small purses fof a colored fodow fiom Detroit De-troit and ho had put out tho best mon wo could sond against him. It got so wo couldn't make a match with home talent and there wore some people in town wbo thought this follow could lick almost anybody ot hid weight. Finally Fi-nally we hoard of a strong man over at Cleyelaud, a big blacksmith that had stood up before Sullivan onco, and we sent for him to fight Peter, the colored fellow. i 'Well, there were some fellows there who watted -to tnnke a llttlo money, and they knWWUtat the whole town was ready to bnck'fetec so they put up a scheme to dope him, "The fellow that handled Peter was In on the job.' They went to a druggls and got some knock out drops warranted to kill a horse, and it was arranged that the man In the corner was to gtvo the dose to Peter just before the call of 'time.' "Well, It looked aa if thero wasn't a chance for anything to go wrong, so they wont out and laid all their money on the strong man from Cleveland. They didn't bavo any troubloln getting It on, either. "There was a big crowd out to see tho scrap. Just before tho two men UfeA tip tk f4Uw that, waj hatxlllag Petriald. 'Take a good drink of ihl, and handed him the poison, lie drank about a qna'l of the dope he'd do anything you told him to do. "The referee called 'tlmel and the two men came up. In Just seven seconds sec-onds after they put up their hand Peter lauded a right hand awing or. the Jaw nnd the Cleveland fellow dldn'I wak up for two days. Peter went to his dressing room and put on his clothec, then went to Ibo box oOlce to collect his money and wulked down to take tho night boat for Detroit, After he got on the boat the dope worked. It was a week after that beforo he knew where he was, but ho had tho money, all right." Chicago Record. |