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Show A Tixuskr utile din. There is one brave girl in Charlotte, N. C. Sho is Miss Lula Smith, the pretty little 14-year-old daughter of Sheriff Z. S. Smith, of this county. At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon Miss Lula was playing near the jail whin some other children, when she happened to see a prisoner slide out the jail through a newly made hole in the wall. The little miss knew that would never do, so she ran quickly to the side of the jail and picked up a big stone. She began be-gan to pound a second kinky head poked nearly through the hole, nnd in the act of escaping. Only a few licks were necessary to drive the prisoner back. Standing by the hole on the inside of the jail were a dozen prisoners ready tocrawl through and escape, but the little lit-tle woman stood guard at the outside, and dared them t poke out their heads. She garo the alarm and soon her father was on the scene, and the prisoners all locked up in their cells. By some means or other the prisouers bad cut a hole through the thick brick wall, and had it not been for Mias Lula a whoK-sale delivery deliv-ery would havo resulted. The prisoner that succeeded in getting away was a negro boy in for a trifling offense. Atlanta Constitution. |