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Show A FIGHTING MANIAC Two De3pornt8 Encounters with a Madman Mad-man Who Eafuees to be Incarcerated. In-carcerated. QAYBLIMO HOUSES OL03ED UP Saloon Licenses to be Called in on Their Expiration Captain Parker i on Deck Again -" . . ring aim of the peeler iast night and is held on ft charge of vagrancy. Fred Doe for discharging firo arms within the city limits was lined 10 and costs, ail Miiount that was promptly produced. A. 11. Kellcy and John Xcshn fur tresspass were convicted but sentence wr.s suspended. A fellow who was too much agitated to give his name called on Sergeant Donovan shortly after midnight and reported a visit from the marauder whom he says entered his lodgings on Third South' and relieved him of bis clothing. The suit was the only one the follow had in his possession and ho secured I he loan of ono before ho was enabled to report tho calamity to tho police. An Insane man who positively declines de-clines to divulge his narao if he knows it is confined in the county jail where everything is being done by Shciill Burt and his corpi of assistants for his relief. The fellow mado his appearance appear-ance in tho southern suburbs last evening even-ing and boarding a Rapid Transit car was carried as far as city hall corner where ho was turned over to police headquarters. Officer Offi-cer Huberts was conducting conduc-ting him to tho lockup when the unfortunate un-fortunate follow with fiendish effort clutched his custodian by ths throat and .subsequently seized his gloved thumb between his frothing fangs. Ilu made a desperate effort to removo the finger but tho sheepskin prevented, whereupon the lunatic was overpowered and taken to the county jail. At tiiis place Th D.nparate Encounter was repeated, the frenzied fellow turning upon Turnkey Joo Hurt and John Biirbridge, tho guard, who finally had to resort to a straight jacket before bo was gotten under subjection, Tho luckless prisoner has the appearance of a farmer, is of dark complexion, about ' 5 feet 10 inches in height, and during a lucid intervaljndmitted that he had a wife and two children. The madman seems to bo tho victim of an hallucination that involves some abstruse problems in mathematics as his diseased brain leads him constantly to figures without any tangible result. A Hroad Distinction. "There are holtlpps ami holdups," remarked re-marked a well known merchant this morning. "When I make tiso of this 1 mean to convey lhat some men are held up by the highwayman and that others for good cause teach us that every man enn he, if he wants to be, his own highwayman. high-wayman. I know this, because 1 had an occasion to investigate a certain clerk and convince myself that it was the proper thing as a mattor of solf f roteetion to let him down and out. low did it happen? Why, he lost the combination, according to his own romance, ro-mance, and had to take the day's receipts re-ceipts away with him. Ho went to a faro layout, rolled them up into the reds for an hour or more, and then sought his room, a moneyless man and, in fact, an embezzler. He informed me the following morning that ho had been hold up and robbed of tho receipts. re-ceipts. Fortunately for me his December Decem-ber salary had not been paid, and I robbed hint of that to reimburse the afe. Of course I sympathise with the man who is made the victim of a bona fide holdup, but there are altogether too many who try to make up their deficits de-ficits at the expense of the garroter." The merchant has, evidently, sported A little himself, i Closed Their Doors. Marshal Young last evening took up arms and began a crusade against the gambling houses, five of which W3re ordered to close their doors. Tho injunction in-junction is said to be perpetual, ami any effort to reopen' will be met with prompt resistance from the police department which is determined that the spirit of reform shall tlop its wings to its heart's content. It is also understood that the marshal has been in consultation with the committee on licenses and that he has recommended N that certain saloon licenses be permanently perma-nently called in at thoir expiration. How many doors this will close has not yet been revealed although it is said that the movement will apply to all obnoxious resorts. Cracksmen In Conrt. Holloway and his pals who were recently re-cently run down by Marshall Young and Officers Jenney and Kandolph, were taken before Judgo Lanoy at 3 o'clock this afternoon with a collection of burglars' tools, safe-blowing implements imple-ments and explosives that would have supplied the most enterprising firm in New York. At 2:!!0 this afternoon officer offi-cer Ecklund, who has been on the trail of confederates in the plot for several days overtook a fellow whom he identified iden-tified as one of the men who went to Holloway, s lodgings and demanded admission to his grip sack. Ho presents pre-sents all the ear marks of a typical tough. Check-Mated Him. The services of Officer Poole were called into requisition lust evening at the Rio Graude Western depot at which time Manager Phillips of the White house hud occasion to resort to heroic nioasures in the collection of a board bill that chorister in the Abbott Opera company was undertaking to leave behind him as a reminisceneo. Tho fugitive was made to dig up and square hift bill after which ho departed on the lU;0ji train. On Deck Acain. Captain William Parker who has been confined to his apartments from injuries sustained through an assault at the hands of a belligerent prisoner, for the past ten days, made his appearance again today somewhat paled but otherwise other-wise betraying no ill effects. The injury in-jury has healed nicely and his nose has been fully restored to its original architecture. archi-tecture. The linest are extending him cordial reception. i A Sen t'orp, ot slenth. Mr. F. A. Miller, who lia,s performed excellent service as a private detective, is about to put an association in the field and will inaugurate it about the middle of next month. Ig the absence of an additional number of officers on the police force there will bo pleuty of work to engage the talents of thj association. asso-ciation. One llutidrtd Cold. . M. A. llarger, arrested by Officer Ecklund on complaint of compositor Graham, who had been relieved of an overcoat was found guilty : n I sentenced sen-tenced to 100 days in the city j;UI. Har-. Har-. ger plies his nefarious vocation under the mask of a printer. Poltoe melting. There were 10 drunks to testify to the effectieness of the popular old Kentucky Ken-tucky lymph before Judge Laney during dur-ing the days session. William 'Clark foil before tho uner- |