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Show ALL IN TENJWINUTES. A Sneak Thief Commits the Offense, is Bagged and Sent Up for Three Months. PUEBLO'S MUEDEEES TO EIDE The Sheriff Will Take Him Back to Pace the Musio The Police Eeoord. The quickest arrest, trial and sentence sen-tence on record was made shortly before noon today in the case of Howard How-ard Thomas a sneak thief who had been arrested for petty larceny. Ten minutes before the vociferous yells of a bevy of ladies callol the attention oi ui-ficer ui-ficer Mathews to West Second South street. At the same moment mo-ment the officer saw a coat-tail cutting aright angle with the spine of its possessor, and picking up his limbs he started forth to beat the world's record. The fugitive was telescoped in the second block and then railroaded to police .. headquarters whore a number of silver spoons that had been carried with one nefarious nefari-ous swoop from the table of the Woman's Wo-man's Exchange club were taken from his pocket. Judge Laney and Attorney At-torney Eichnor were on hand. Both were eager for the fray and rubbed their palms with anxious zeal. Thomas was arraigned and pleaded with unblushing assurance not guilty. The discovery dis-covery of the property on his own perssn was a bluff contradiction, con-tradiction, the ladies identified him as tho marauder, and Officer Mathews as tho ; fugitive There was no delay. His star had set. "Three months," chimed the court. A moment later Thomas was ushered into the gloom of the hastile. The Murderer Departs. Lem Swank tho Pueblo assassin leaves for his old crimson-fringed haunts on tho banks of the Arkansas river on this evening'sltio Grande Western Wes-tern where he will face tho music. Sheriff McCarthy is confident the guilty man has been caught and looks forward for-ward to a necktie party in his city before be-fore the snows have departed. 2St uun.jr. Upon the conclusion of the evidence in the case wherein Colonel Ferguson, the lawyer, was charged with knocking down Bob Riohvillo, Judge Laney decided that the defendant was not guilty. . Polloe Pickings, Marshal Young will return from California Cali-fornia on Monday morning next wi.h tqe fellow who tapped his sweetheart's life savings for several hundred dollars. The hurry-up took a drunken fellow to headquarters at 2:80 this, afternoon where he was registered as John Doe. Correspondence with Butte officials indicates that a lot of diamonds that disappeared in this city drifted to that locality on a fellow who is now in jail there. |
