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Show HICHWAYMAN'S BRiEF CAREER. A Boulder Ud f 1 Y.r l.d. Vad- dnly la th. K.lonn School. Ilonldor News. Charley Saase. a lad of nearly lfl, started out last woek to be a bold highwayman, high-wayman, but it did not turn out as it does in dimo novels and he became disgusted dis-gusted with his First attempt. On Thursday he weut down to Owen's lake fishing. He paid 00 cents to Mr. Os-fipd Os-fipd living near, for the uso of a boat. After a while he returned, saying he had caught uo lisli aud demanded all the motley in the house, at the same t;me diawinfr a dagger with a broken blade two mortal inches in leugth ami declaring be would cut her liver out if she hesitated. The trembling woman handed out her purse, containing .V cents, which he tool;, then seeing Mr. Osgood and the hired mati reluruingho struck across the lields to escape. The men. on learning the facts, started after C harley on mules, enlisting a third man on the way, and soon overhauled the ,l,oli! highwayman and brought him to j Wn. He was tried before Justice Kobinson next day and sentenced to five years in the reform school. The parents of the boy are good people and have the sympathy of their neighbors, it is well that Charley's career was nipped so early and he will probably come out at the ud of bis Urm a useful use-ful man. . . . |