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Show A FIENDISH ASSAULT. A Snak Ihl.f Ilaa- a Mord.rou. Blow la tha Darkneu. Between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock: this morning a sneak thief descended, on the campers in Kigbth ward square) and while robbing the pockets of one of the sleepers awakened him. In the discussion that followed a second camper was aroused, w ho, upon calling on the thief to halt was dealt a blow with a king bolt that laid him nut witn an ugly tcalp wound. Victim No, 1 upon making an invoice of Ids gr nienls found that he had been robbed of $.'10 and proceeding to headquarters the oflicers were noti-fiod. noti-fiod. The campers failed to register their m-mes and nothiug is known of their identity save that they were farmers farm-ers from the lower country. |