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Show BY MUZZLE AND MANE. Wife of Policeman Stopa- a Runaway as Husband Instructed. NEW YORK, July 10. Mrs, Frederick J. Blackshaw Is ono of those women who believes In her husband's work. Mrs. Blackshaw's husband being a policeman In tho Montgomery street (Jersey City) precinct, her neighbors failed to ooe how sho could be of much aid to him. "When you soo a runaway horse coming, com-ing, grab him by tho muzzle with ono hand and bv the mnne with tho other, and trip him. It's a baby trick," the policeman police-man told his wife 0110 tlmo In describing his duties ns a "cop." Mrs. Blackshaw wan in Brlnckorhoff strept. Jersey City, yesterday aflornoon, when nlong came n'runn way horso. It was running like all other runaway horpe,' wildly, and slamming Its wagon ogalnKt everything within reach. "Grab it by tho muzzlo with ono hnnd and by tho mane with tho other," recited tho wife of thc policeman by noto. , Sho wondered If she could do IL Tho runaway horse went Jumping toward har. Out went her hnnds. Tho right hand caught tho muzzle and tho loft hand caught the "mano, ami to tho surprlso of Mrs. Blackshaw and the loud cheers of the crowd, who hadn't cared to tnko a hand, she swung tho animal about. In one moro Jump the horso would havo gono through tho storo window, wagon nnd all. But tho plucky Mrs. Blackshaw held tho anlninl'H nock on a crook, and though the horse kicked tho wagon to pieces In Its efforts Jo frco IIbcIi. tho plucky womnn held on till a grocor's boy who had been driving tho horao ran up and helped her. |
