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Show A CtlRioua AnvzNTOlE, Charles H. Smith, a telegraph operator of Munater, Illinois, waa returning on New Year's night Irom a party, walking along the railroad track, , when suddenly, on the middle of a trestle bridge, twenty-five feet high, he was stopped by an armed tramp, ,wtio forced him to throw up bia (hands aud aurrendir his revolver, $60 j in cash, a valuable gold watoh and somejewelry. "Well, old boy," said Jthe highwayman, in delight, "you ,ire pretty well heeled," and he ordereu his victim to hand oyer his ulster, dress coat and vest. Aa Smith : took off hia vest he watched an opportunity, oppor-tunity, aud, with a desperate puBh, hurled the robber from the trestle ! work upon the ice, twenty-fivo feet 'below. Hurrying back for aasiBtance, on hia return he found the highway-I highway-I man lying eensalesa, seriously if not :ftally wounded, on the ice, with his plunder, and tho man was soon in 'jail. |