Show THOUGHT THEY HAD A BAD MAN Offender Who Was Believed by His Captors to be Most Desperate is Found to be a Youth of Fifteen When last evenings rainstorm was i most violent tho police were notlllcd that their presence was in urgent demand de-mand at 1073 East First South Two daring thieves hud been discovered in the very act of looting a portion oC L M Petersons back yard The neighborhood neighbor-hood had organized itself and had cap tureU one of the marauders The other after u dusperato run had escaped Tho captive was In charge of a heavy escort and if the police would PatrolDriver Cannon Officer Ed Davies and a platoon of reporters all heavily armed scrambled Into the wagon wa-gon nnd a run followed which imulu the April lightning turn with envy For j I eleven long blocks through the drenching drench-ing l rain the mad run was continued then a knot of men standing huddled on a corner marked the spot where police po-lice reinforcements were needed rue wagon paused at a safe distance anti Oflleer Davies loosened hi < gun and advanced ad-vanced as skirmisher When the blue buttons loomed Into and brass coat sight the knot of men advanced briskly to meet him In their midst was the a rather small boy of 15 years prisoner A stalwart man had his arms pinioned 1 either side The balance of the escort on coiL consisted of one man In the van and a number In the rear The prisoner was turned over to Otllcer Davies together to-gether with the Information that the lad did feloniously take steal and carry away u lilt malice aforethought om piece of rusty iron piping fully one yard long Without taking the pre I caution to bind and gag the prisoner a return trip was Inaugurated Expressions Ex-pressions bv members of the expedition mIght shock the reader The boy George Martin of 887 First street said that he and a hoy named Harry Brooks had taken the piping Just for fun IIc said lhat the man who caught him struck him severely In the fueo threw him down and sat on him George didnt look like a bad boy so the police kc him go on the promise that he would show up today Petertuih the complainant com-plainant promised to be on hand to prosecute |