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Show RILEY THE WRECKER j I Jlonnil Over 1 1 the Sum r 1,10(1 to i A w:il t the Action of the (.rami Jury. The examination of Chalks Biley, ' who was arre.sted on Saturday evening I last by Marshal Young uml Sheriff i Burt, charged w ith attempting to ! wreck a train was concluded last evening even-ing when the prisouer wad held to the grand jury iu the sum of $1,100. Unable to furnish this amount Uiley joined the guests in the bastile where he will aw ait the coining charges iu a career I that proinir.es to be decidedly ehee-1 qnered. Tho evidence adduces another' horribly eccoutrie example of the extent ex-tent to which au aveuging spirit niav go. Ililcy, who was employed a- a boatman at Garfield beach had boarded a chattered train and making himself obnoxious to its passengers was put oil. j ' I'll get oil," was Uiley' suilon re- i mark, ' but I'll promise you to cause trouble before I get through." The conductor did not convrllv read between the lint's of this isiuist.'r declaration, declar-ation, but dismissed it as a drunkeu threat, to which there would be no sequel. Uiley w as sincere in his promise, prom-ise, however, and determined te.-venge his tliscomtiture if it took the life of every excursionist on board the train. To execute this awful plot he started forth. A stack of ties was standing by the track, and seizing those tie began to weave the terrible calamity that was so narrowly averted by a vigilant engineer. Across the rails he begun to carefully lay the ties and pavo the w ay to a grave. It was nearly midnight when the train came bowling ou towards the city with its unsuspecting un-suspecting freight. ' Theru was a sudden halt and th passenger shuddered as they surveyed beneath the light of the moon the awful disaster they had escaped. The episode was reported, re-ported, and by a clever piece 4 w in k Ililcy w as aoprehended. He had been outwitted by a streak of luck. Tho revolting re-volting spectacle that haunted his brain when ho was laying the death-trap had not been realized aud be as riding au incoming train when tho ollirrr bagged him. "Whore'tl you sleep W.t night?" demanded de-manded his captor. "1 slept at a farm bouse with a friend," said the prisoner, with ri-teniptiious ri-teniptiious emphasis. "Then point out the farm house," exclaimed ex-claimed the officer. "Oh! I meant that 1 laid my blankets in the sage finish. " liilevtciunil himself foiled right at the thresldiold of an avenuo through which ho had designed his escape. He was permitted to go, however, until stronger evidence was produced. Tlie authorities authori-ties visited the scene of tho atlompled wreck and critically invoiced it. It was evident that the obstruction was the, work of a solitary lientl. The footprints foot-prints iu the soil bctraved this and when they were compared with Wiley's number liiue the tit. was perfect. '1 he tale was told, or at least enough of it to justify arrest, and Uiley w as taken to the lockup, from which ho was suIhmv quently taken and last evening bound over to await the action of tho grand jurv. - Ho- has a troublosowo roud bo-fore bo-fore him. . The officers are determined de-termined and public seiiliment is stir-roil stir-roil to its depths. He hail laid the foundation for an awful tragedy. Its victims may have been eonlined to ten or on the other-hand the list may have stretched out to lilty. There worn oyer one hundred on the doomed train which at the fiendish decree of Kile.v should stop its course in a total wreck. Ho will draw no sympathy from the public, and his chance's for a term in the penitentiary peni-tentiary are exceedingly bright. The officers are to be congratulated on their clever work. |