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Show Wh take it all back, and oaly wish Commissioner Stillson were here that we might tell him so. The Kennebec (Me.) Journal has a loDg account of a midnight fight between a policeman and a burglar, in which a suspender buckle impenetrable shield I saved the cop's liie. The burglar struck at the officer with a dirk knife, the blade of which was about eight inches long, ground to a sharp edge on both sides. The feliow aimed a heavy blow, but the blade struck the policeman's suspender buckle, and his life was saved. So far this is a remarkable coincidence and one which might lead to the belief that Stillson was "'way down in Maine," practicing upon the credulity cre-dulity of eastern flats with a little sensation which he failed to make go down in this country. Howeyer the similarity ceases at this point, the remainder of the story being anything but Stillsonian. The Maine offioer went on with the fight, wrenched the knife from the hand of the would be assassin, whom he also cut, and wounded with a pistol shot. The policeman came out of the struggle with several wound oa the head, neck and body. It will be remembered that Stillson, after his sua pendw buckle had defied the black lying down od the bed, and after a time sending out information of the affray. The only evidences of bis encounter were the mutilated photographs photo-graphs ot his mamma, and a hole in the vest. But after the Maine fight we take baok all we ever said deroga tory to suspender buckles, and shall ever consider them modest, but effectual effect-ual instruments of defense against tbe knife the dirk knife of the assassin. |