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Show (i.l'E HIM LAI Gil. Eow Sheriff Burt's Gallantry Cheated Him Out of a fugitive on a Eainy Night. THE JEFF DAVIS ACT OUTDONE. Hebe Mackay Comes iu aud Surrendering Tells How Ha Outwitted the Sleuths. Hebe Maekay the artful dodger who has been playing bide au seek with Sheriff Hurt ever since the starless night he attempted to snuff Charlie Tuoides' candle came in yesterday of his own volition and surrendered himself, lie was taken before Commis.-ioner Green-man Green-man where ho was held in the sum of J.'oO to an examination j that will occur on Mouday morning at 10 o'clock. It develops now that Theide w as not visited with injuries in-juries as at tirst reported and all that remains of a tragic reminiscence is an eye that twinkles from a selling almost as dark as midnight. Tho report of Hebe's latest escapade tinder tho mantle of a slugger had no sooner reached the city than the shet ill Has travelling liko a gust of wind toward tho scene of tho tragedy. Tho bird had flown, however, and while its pursuers had turned every stone, was nowhere to bo found. A second trip was made and the ground was scoured w ith as much diligence as upon the lirst. And yet tho spirit failed by any niediumship on the the part of the despairing sheriff to manifest itself. Tho medium returned to the city and was seated with his eyes upon tho crimson crim-son fringed horizon when the long sought fugitive stalked in and, with a malicious laugh, fell into the embrace of his pursuer. "I've got one ou you," said ho to tho sheriff. "And that?" 'The way iu which I outwitted you. You could have put your baud on me at one moment, but 1 was like the departed de-parted hero of the southern confederacy they had me in petticoats." 'Then you were tho Mary whom I found in bed?" "Exactly." "And was tho creaturo whom your brother Ted pointed to beneath the sheets as his wife?" "Tho same one." "Tho sheriff confessed judgment. The fugitive had outwitted him and both ordered lemonades." Sheriff Hurt bad, in reality, traced Hebe to bis hiding place. Admitted to a back roon, alter a clever ruse ho found himself iu the presence of 'Jed's mother-in-law and a young girl who denied that tho "eel" was there with such well simulated sincerity sincer-ity that he was thrown off his guard. He withdrew but slapped his eye to a bole in the curtain iu ample time to catch sight of tho hurrying form of the mother as it passed throunh a door. "I'll bet my life he's in there," piped the peace " officer, and again rapping on tho threshold he was admitted. This time he determined to search more minutely and had peered into collar boxes, ink bottles and pickle jars when he reached the entrance to the last apartment. I "Who's there?" demanded the occupant occu-pant in tones that issued like a peal of thunder. "The sheriff; open up." "Xo one hero but my wife and baby" "Let me find that out," chimed the officer. "Cover up yourself Mary" was the muffled admonition that fell on tho sheriff's sensitive audiphoue. "All right." cried a voice in tho shrill pitch of a piccolo. Anil in the sheriff strode. An infant sat battiug hs sleepy eyes like an opening open-ing rosebud in the center of the lied, while beneath the bed clothes could bo seen the outlines of an adult, even tho head concealed. The sheriff was gifted with too much gallantry to disturb "Mrs. Ted Maekay," and satisiied that again had he been balked, tho officer withdrew. "And now," said Hebe, with a fiendish fiend-ish twinkle in his eye, "permit me to present to you Mrs. 'J ed Maekay, alias the fugitive Hebe, for whom you were searching that rainy night." The sheriff was the only one in the office who was loo full for utterance he only smiled a sickly smile. |