Show I HOLLEY WANED GORE VENT AFTER C O HAGfVA WITH A GUN An Escape From the Chain Gang Fi < ustvacil SerRcant Ford Sur liriKOH the Patrolman With New and Improved Clubs Detective Adam Paul yesterday saved C O Hasan of this city from being pierced with a bullet from the gun of W Holley Holley had been after Hasan with his gun for several hours and vas just preparing to flash it on Hagan when the wily Paul locked his arms in a bear like hug from behind Holley was wandering about the streats Sizing hungrily into the face of pedestrians pedes-trians and occasionally putting his nand nervously on his pistol pocket xhis excited ex-cited Pauls suspicions and near the corner of Second South he began to t aii the man The nervous pedestrian veered un Main street to First South then turned round abruptly and started t walk back At the Jennings corner the detective saw someone dart past the man with the gun and walk hurriedly to the other slue of the street A mo ment later he saw him returning this time with a companion As soon as they reached Hole both of the men jumped forward and grasped him Almost instantly in-stantly he wrenched his right arm free and threw it back to his hip pocket Hut at that point it stopped for It was just here that Paul arrived on the scene and Dinned him from behind The whole scene occurred on Main strete near Cohns store and was over so quietly that passing pedestrians scarcely noticed that anything unusual had happened Holey was taken to the police station and on the way still threatened wildly that he would have Hagans blood His unslaked thirst for revenue was the result re-sult of a scrap with Hagan wiiicn the latter soon ended with a few well de livered blows on the others mouth and proboscis The combat was a sort of Go liath and Davis affair as Hagan is as big as an antediluvian monarch and Holey as diminutive as one of the fabled Lilliputians The David uf this story however did not carry either a stone or a sling and the big man soon made him blissfully unconscious of his surroundings Holley was held for carry ing a concealed weapon and is likely to undergo a still longer durance in order that peace may be kept AN ESCAPE FRUSTRATED A clever ruse that came near being a success was resorted to on Thursday by some unknown persons to effect the escape es-cape of John Edgar of till tapping no I toriety from custody in the chain gang I Edgar was working near the top of the pit on the steep incline of Capitol I hill while the rest of the ragged brigade bri-gade were using their picks a little 8 I lower down On Thursday morning when the gang arrived Guard Raleigh was surprized to see a large rope hang ing over the brow of the hill to the very spot where Edgar was wont to dislodge rocks with his pick This at tempt to accomplish the robbers escape was well planned for he could easily have thrown himself to the top on the rope and then disappeared on the other side before the guards could have circled around the hill and got ready for pursuit pur-suit Stevens made his escape over the hill a week ago and someone who had become emboldened by his successful break for liberty had adopted this means to get Edgar out of his travail among the bowlders Two men who were hang w lag around the gang two days before are suspected of being i Edgars accomplices SERGENAT FORDS SURPRISE Sergeant Ford yeserday cooed some thing in the ear of each of the patrolmen patrol-men under his official charge and a few minutes later they all gathered in front of the paling that enclosed the captains sanctum On the inside loomed up the tall form of the sergeant who had one eye on his lieutenants in blue while with his other orb he was diligently inspecting in-specting t large bundle that was lying before him on the counter When he broke the cord and pulled out a large assortment of newly varnished duOs adorned about the handle with bright bright red tapestry the eyes of about seven seen patrolmen inflated like an ostrich plumage plum-age when a warm tropical wind strikes it When the sergeant digindfiedly picked them aut one at a time and handed thorn I round a half stunned expression spread I over the faces of seven men in blue They are lighter than the others volunteered I vol-unteered the sergeant This broke the spell and the patrolmen marched out in company with the new equipment and with faces brighter than the muchly spangled bunting that hung over the I doorway of the hal I i |