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Show "Minrt Words GtTe .Mc a Bit." In this season of robberies and the prevalence of foot-pads, it w,.ul 1 he nothing unusual to hjar of a stage coach feing attacked, anf r ji bed. .r an individual being knocked down on the out-kirts of the city, and otlur viAl known sections of it. sn 1 h: pock-e;s pock-e;s ii:l d. Hut it appear- that we have anion.: u-. son.e wi, .-e daring i in j t'.. them to more huzar i u ri.-ks, and tor the ma.i con.-Mc ..;i n of a "bit." At out half pat '2 o'clock this morning the attention of one c:' the e!oi N in the oilice of toe Atlantic and I'ao.iic Telecra) h was n'lraoted i y an individual who stood eai.-;de the Counter and had a-ke i for a 1:1. Ho apieand a sinnc. ro'oo-.. healthy man. and not de-ervi;.- el i .ariiy. an i l.'is breaili it Jo. tot w;;!i whi.-KV. The c'.eik he-haioi. and h, the ..r untime un-time a.- advised i y at:o. ,er to; : j-t. He turned away, but a rap; ing on the eounor a-ain niaie him . o.v around, when lie as a idres-ed tim- ; Short words; oc -i " and he mw tliat tun trar.g r 'a oir.t-ing oir.t-ing a pistol at his head. The clerk looked down the gaping chamber;, saw the leaden pills, could even see that they were slugs and not round pellets for a muzzle of a pistol is very large when an angry man is pointing it with his fingers on the trig-zeT trig-zeT and concluded that the request had become a mandatory order, which he hastened to comply with. The stranger turned and left, followed quickly by the clerk in search of a policeman, but the man of "short words" had disappeared. They don't know him: don't know what his object wa: they' oniy know that the six-shooter six-shooter possessed the peculiar charm of compeUinz them to at once hand over a Lit. Alta. |