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Show 'TIlJWfWBS The Effective Manner in Which the Elusive Geniuses Have Been Mown Down. SLIPPERY SIDNEY THE LAST. The Undertakers Said to Have Kissed and Made Up Over Poor Zan-zotta'i Zan-zotta'i Corpse, The run in police circles during the lay was featureless. The debauchee seemed to have sought his hole and pulled it in after him. The forgers who have been such a source of aunoyance to the unwary merchant, not to speak of the tireless sleuth with the thankless mission, have been virtually weeded I out and their habitations left to a new crop that will arrive no doubt long before the vitalizing April sun sun and shower. Eleven forgers, be it said to the credit of official vigilance, have been entrapped within the past few months, a record of which but few departments can boast. The last one to drop into the game bag was A. C. Sidney, who is held in the sum of $1500 to await the action of the grand jury. Confined in the same precincts with him is young Charlie Madden whose reckless escapades finally launched him in the embrace of the law. His audacious auda-cious depredations that were characterized character-ized by quick turns and small profits, have been the means of breaking the heart of a mother and sister and bringing bring-ing fresh snows to the head of an idolatrous idol-atrous sire. He is the boldest of all the bold operators in spurious checks with which the otlicers have had to deal and, slippery as the proverbial eel, has kept them chasing by day and night for months. Although a sophomore sopho-more in years, he is the cleverest of the gang who have operated inZiou during the season. The officers who have been watching with some interest the ultimate fate of Zan.otta's corpse, have been confidentially confiden-tially informed that the war over it is about ended. This will be gratifying, if it is authentic, to the public who have been effected with too much reference to the animosities of certain undertakers under-takers since the present coroner began his mercenary and erratic reign. A sensational rumor was borne into police circles this morning concerning con-cerning a sanguinary altercation in a Main street gambling house during the night. It was reported re-ported that an ex-conductor was fishing in the stream of hazard when a dispute arose, in which the player was knocked down and kicked to death. An acquaintance acquaint-ance who was standing in the room at the time of the assault states that the conductor subsequently disappeared as if he had been swallowed up by a maelstrom, and all efforts to develop his whereabouts have been fruitless. |