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Show An A grit Amazon. Atchison-, Kan., Sept. 17. Homer Thomas, aged 1."), sou of a fanner in Mitchell county, is in jail awaiting trial on tho charge of attempting to criminally crimin-ally assault Mrs. Helen lilackney, aged 05. Thomas, it is alleged, met Mis. Fdackney in acorn hold and threatened to shoot her unless she would submit to him. Instead of submitting, she took the revolver from him and tore the handkerchief which ho used for a mask fiom his face. Seeing that he was reeotniiod. Thomas ran away, but was captured. The affair has created a good ileal of excitement in the rural i district where the a"eged crime was coinnrtled on account of the yoiith.'u!-ness yoiith.'u!-ness of the assailant and the uge of h s j intended victim. |