| Show MYSTERY AT MURRAY I Tall Stranger Held Up Citizens on Two Nights In Succession but Got Neither Money Nor Lives f Murray has a genuine mystery On two nights in succession citizens have been held up at the point of a gun at the same place and at about the same hour by a tall stranger who seemed to bo seeking neither their lives nor their money Tho first affair occurred Wednesday night A young man living about half a mile south of time main pan of the town was walking up a narrow lane that runs cast from tim State road when an unmasked man poked a shotgun In his face and told him to halt It occurred to the young man that the gun might bp loaded EO ho did not halt at least until he reached his homo In the llttlo settlement at the end of the lane Ho lost nothing but his breath At 8 oclock last night about tho hour of the first holdup the stranger appeared 1 again this time In front of a man riding up the lane on a horse His shotgun had dwindled down to a pistol or perhaps the i second man was not so nervous as the first at any rate the man on horseback looked into time muzzle of a shootingIron as he heard the order to gtop Instead of stopping ho kicked bin horse In time side and dashed past the mysterious bandit The last attempt was reported to Deputy Sheriffs Raleigh and Busby who were In Murray on other business hut the officers failed to learn the names of the men who mot the stranger They left word for Deputy Mans at Murray to In estlgato the matter today It Is suspected at Murray that the man with the gun Is looking for somo particular particu-lar Individual and Is not seeking to rob or murder the public ot large The young fellow who had tile last look at him thinks ho would know him again |
