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Show SEAGER STOPS A RUNAWAY, Policeman Beats Plunging Team Into Submission. Patrolmnn Burt Seagcr clubbed a team of runaway horses Into submission yesterday yes-terday afternoon. By this novel means tho officer stopped as ugly a runaway as haa excltod Stale street for some time. The team belonged to a farmer. It was attached to it wngon. The pole dropped and tho horses bolted This wns on First South. The horses ran to the Junction of Slate street and started to run down that thoroughfare. They collided with a single rig owned by tho water department, whose horse was tied at the curb. At this juncture Seagor, who had seized the bridle reins a moment bofore, used his baton to good advantage. The team were still plunging on. But the brief stop gavo tho patrolman the chance to get his club. He struck both horses sharply and dazed them. With the help, of a bystander ho brought them to a full stop, Just as they wero about to gallop down the sidewalk. |