Show HELD UP THE WRONG MANI Oliver B Ostlers Experience on Wednesday Evening Wednesday evening at about 920 as Mr Oliver B Ostler a young man who acls as porter for Messrs Auer Murphy was passing the east entrance to the University ground a man approached ap-proached him with tbe somewhat startling request to throw up his hands Mr Ostler says he was badly frightened for a moment and as he yelled murder he reached out and grabbed tbe footpad by the arms immediately below the eloows As be fastened his grip upon the fellow the later told Ostler to keep quiet tnat he intended o do him no injury that lii had made a misUso and rtopped the wrong man Ostler noticed something la the fellows ban I and asked iu what u was lie replied it i was nothing but an investigation revealed the fact that it was a pisol Ibn fellow evidently evi-dently aeeijjr that he had not run jgainsl a soft snap then commenced to profusely npologtzi I for hi mistake and assured tbe assaile 1 that if he bad Had any idea that Ostler bad not been the man he wanted he would not have topppd him for a thousand dollars With the iota of gaining Uuii Oitler tl en said it istVery wrong to irigbtcn me in this manner and I feel sure that I shall be sick as the result of the scare Will you walk with me until we we reach light and then I will feel more secure t The fellow assented to tneproposition and during tile few minutes followidg explained and apologized apol-ogized again for his action He was looking he said for a fellow who had done him dirt and on whom he proposed pro-posed to get even There was a good deal more of the same kind of talk and soon the fellow seeing another figure on the opposite side of the street excused ex-cused himself with the remark That looks like my man now and left A few minutes later ho again joined Jstler with the information that he was again mistaken and then noticing a number of people coming towards him he vanished muttering some excuse ex-cuse as be did so There can be little doubt but that it was a case of attempted robbery which would probably have ternmated differently differ-ently but for Mr Ostlers presence of mind |