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Show lngeronN Practice. A man named John King, half drunk and the other half made up of Ticiousness and insanity, was swinging a cocked and loaded six-shooter up and down East Temple street, last evening, and warning people to keep out of his road or he would shoot. Officers Charles Livingstone and , Andrew Smith Anally got on his , trick and followed him down to near Tnirtl South street, ho still keeping . the pistol in his hand, making it a ( dangerous task to arrest him. While Smith attracted tho attention of King, Livingstone dexterously seized the weapon, and before the trigger could be pulled placed his thumb under the hammer.thus preventing a discharge. It was taking desperate chances to make the arrest, but the officers were equal to the occasion. Kml? was lodged in jail, last night, and wo be taught that a loaded pistol is not exactly the proper thing to flourish. n a public street. |