| Show KING V CAUGHT AT LAST Sheriff Naylors ManHunt Ends With Capture HELPED BY A TELEPHONE King Who Is Charged With Criminal Crim-inal Libel by Judge Jacob Johnson Telephoned to the Sheriff Yesterday Yester-day Morning and Later Was Run to Earth on Brokers Kow JJaylor Says Ho Didnt Serve the Warrant Sooner Because He Knew King Would Not Leave Town J Ben King late proprietor of Living Liv-ing Issues was arrested yesterday V but has not been compelled to do an Edmund Dantes stunt as yet V That Mr King was numerously assured by his frIends yesterday would V come later VV Service on the warrant Issued on complaint of Judge Johnson was secured V se-cured early yesterday morning1 Deputy Sheriff Walter Sloan per appointment made meeting 3Ir King on Second V South and performing the feat Mr King equipping himself with the warrant war-rant went to Justice Gustave Kroe gers court where the complaint was inudo and entered an appearance deferred de-ferred the entering of his plea and was placed under a bond of 1000 With an admonition from the olficero to be careful care-ful no to take any bad money and not to tell his business to strangers the V hardened Benjamin was turned loose to get the bond He made an arrangement V arrange-ment with the otlicers to have tile form of the bond > left at Jimmys and V started out to find bondsmen CrossIng Cross-Ing the street from the Justice court Mr King managed by sonic occult Jugglery to interest a couple of obscure ob-scure citizens named D ILV Peary Jr and Sam Rcggel In his trouble and V persuaded them to alllx their signatures V signa-tures to the bond which Mr King then methodically deposited with Justice Jus-tice Kroeger V During the Interval while the form of the bond Wns being prepared Mr V King was In the custody of some specially selfappointed custodians of his person three in number W G Benham Sam Reggcl and DC Dun bar who saw to It that Mr King was arraigned before the bar several times V NEWS SPOILED BREAKFAST Mr King was stuck up and robbed of an Interview on the case during the time he was waiting for the bond his custodians graciously consenting lo let him talk of the case I never knew a thing about It said air King until un-til breakfast time this morning I was reading The Tribune and exterminating exterminat-ing a certain cantaloupe I happened V to turn the paper over and was somewhat some-what Jarred to learn that there was a warrant out for me 3Iy appetite lessened les-sened In violence from that time onward V on-ward and I found myself unable to V complete the demolition of the cantaloupe canta-loupe I gently bore down on a neigh i boring telephone end called up SherllC Naylor Ham says I is It the fact V that you have a warrant for me V Yes says he Ive had It in my pocket for a week Then why Hamlet Ham-let I murmured pressing my V cheek tenderly against the phone why have you not scooped me In Oh says L Ham Ive been rather busy and I knew I could nail you at any time I then made an appointment for the ar restlon which was perpetrated by Deputy Sloan better known as the silverthroated swan of the local Democracy Together we roamed to the Justices ofilce where I registered an appearance V But coming down to the case proper said Mr King L am certainly cer-tainly going to fight It and I am able to prove every allegation In the story printed In Living Issues I shall bring In evidence the sworn otatements in the State records and also the books of the railroad companies I hope to retain as my attorneys Senator Arthur V Brown Judge Ogden Riles Lindsay R Rogers and J H Jloyle with probably prob-ably sfomo others These gentlemen Jam J-am told arc rising young lawyers V who will be anxious to make a record In their first case CAUSED BRAIN FAG What has caused me the most brain V fag In connection with the matter though concluded Mr King Is why Ham permitted me to roam at large EO long knowing my nomadic habits For all he could tell I might have been elected aeqretary to the Sultan of Turkey and have left to begin work at any moment I shudder real shuds when I think of how near Ham came to losing me Why do you know he almost overlooked me in that conven Ion Wednesday He sat right behind me all the time and all he said was Hello Ben to which I pplitely replied re-plied howdy Ham l I have been carefully seeking the seclusion of Brokers row every afternoon andlhe V theaters at night Tt seems almosta miracle that Ham ever got me Nd if There had been no telephones it might Here Colonel Dont pass up a poor fellow Just because hes in irouble Will I Did 1 ever refuse Ill he with you In a moment V NAYLOR FELT SECURE Sheriff Naylor says he did not feel any alarm about Sir King I knew Ben would not skip out said the Sherilf last night and I never thought for a moment the matter would get In the papers so he would know there was a warrant out for him When I read The Tribune yesterday morning though I at once decided to serve the warrant and so Sloan and I went out and arrested him 1 had the warrant four or live days and would have arrested V ar-rested him at the convention if it had not been that I was busy there both of us being delegates and 1 not want V Ing to take him right out of his dde gatlon during the convention I knew everything was perfectly safe though even If Ben had known there was a warrant for him V |
