Show DETECTIVE MAKES WILD RUN TO ROUND UP MARTINS BROWSING NAG My horse has just been stolen Send some officers out at once to catch the thieves This message was received over the phone at police headquarters l shortly be before before before fore midnight by b a man giving his name as all Charles Martin KS S South Ninth East street In excited voice Martin assured the desk sergeant ergeant that the thieves were still in the neighborhood and that by hurrying the officers might overtake them Without loss of time Lieutenant Shan Shea Shannon ShanDon non Don and Detective Ho Howell Howells wells went out in ina Ina ina a buggy driving the horse at breakneck speed On reaching Teaching the barn blun at the rear Of or th the house they met their first sur aur surprise surprise prise pH A man armed with rifle was pa parading fading rading back hack and forth after the fashion of oC a soldier doing sentry duty Up tip with your our hands he shouted while his weapon shook in Is his own trem trembling trembling bling Wing hands Were Vere officers replied the pair pall from headquarters lII Lower that rifle please Oh excuse e cu e me came the response In quavering voice I know kno It I thought you was horse hor thieves My name is Martin I was tile the one that telephoned My horse had been stolen After this polite exchange of salutations Martin recovered his courage and the of proceeded to business Are you AOU ou sure it Il was stolen they asked Martin was positive he told lold them the exact hour when the horse was missed miSled and that he thought just thought thou gb the he had h s seen en a pair of suspicious looking strangers leaving the premises They had no horse however The officers In Insisted slated upon a description of the missing animal Martin gave it That cleared the seeming mystery I guess your horse stolen they assured him You just had a adream adream adream dream And ADd they led the frightened man not more than then a halt half block from the barn There they found a quiet gentle appear appearing lag Ins animal gracing grasing with satisfaction on the lawn of Martins neighbor The ani animal anImal mal mat raised Its I I head as if it objecting to the intrusion of or strangers The officers had observed the tM horse on their way wa to the barn and it tallied with the description given by Martin MartinIs Is that your jour our nag they the asked and Martin replied in the affirmative Thi Th Then n take it That horse was Just Justa a bit hungry and wandered off to o eat up your neighbors neighbor grass gr they told him himIn himIn hImin In not the gentlest of or terms and left for headquarters |