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Show Daring Garroting. About 10 o'clock last night the gentlemanly young clerk in a certain bookstore of this city, pale, nearly breathless, trembling from excitement, excite-ment, and carrying a well-loaded pistol in his hand, rushed into a house in the Sixteenth ward. A number num-ber of young people who happened to be there, became deeply excited as to what was the matter with the clerk that ho should present so frightened an appearance, and anxious inquiries, were eagerly made. Finally the clerk j recovered sufficiently to relate how he had just escaped from a murderous garroter, who was lying in wait for him. He saw the ruffian crouching on the ground, ready to spring upon him and at the muzzle of a deadly weapon compel him to disgorge his watch and currency, when he (the ' clerk) forthwith drew his pistol, and presenting it Baid to the midnight . marauder, "I see you, sir; none of i that." The desparado then dropped i back and the clerk hastened to the house for safety. The young men who had listened to this exciting recital, re-cital, being directed to the location of the almost tragedy, were soon at the spot, determined to capture the garroter, gar-roter, or give him a lively chase. Sure enough, thero laid the scoundrel, hugging the ground to avoid discovery; cautiously the crowd surrounded aud approached him, but he did not move. At last they look hold of him and yet he did not stir. They shook the villain aud he made no signs of resistance, and tinally a pistol was discharged over the prostrate body and still it moved not. The long and short ol it is, the garroter was a poor drunken wrdch who bad fallen down in the btrcet, where ho had unconsciously uncon-sciously been tho means of frightening frighten-ing the timid book clerk into a series of spasms. The young men who captured the "desperado" say if the clerk will "eot up the brer" they'll drop the subject; if l a revises, they will take pains to inform him tn be cautious about being out laic at night. |