Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-12 | Page 8 | A Fleeced Lamb

A FLEECED LAMB. One of the Nation' Protector! Bunt I'p Against a Hard Citizen. A Soldier Lamb carries a gun for Uncle Sam at the stip ilated stipend of $13 per month, and when he is not engaged en-gaged at Fort Douglas he drops down to the city and distributes a few buck-ets buck-ets of red paint. When in the mood Lamb lays himself open to being fleeced, and this morning he is a veritable verita-ble shorn sheep. Last nip ht he came down from tho barracks and pro. ceedeil to help tho prohibi. tion causo along by despoiling several glasses of beer and sundry decoctions de-coctions of Jersey lightning. He became be-came maudlin under the influence of the ardenls, and while helpless ran up against one John Mahar, who immediately immedi-ately engaged in a financial transaction with Mr. Lamb. If reports are true, the transaction lacked the usual business busi-ness courtesies, and took the form of pugnacity on the part of Mr. Mahar, who. it is alleged, forcibly extracted $10 from the pockets of the nation's protector. A complaint was lodged with the police, and Mahar was taken into custody. He awaits a hearing.