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Show Sensation Caused by John Murray John Murray created a sensation In West Second South street In tho cold, gray dawn of Thursday morning that extended ex-tended several blocks away. It was C o'clock and an lco wagon was making do. liven. of Its gelid necessity. Of a sudden Murray ran from a saloon, In which he had been taking lhpild refreshments freely, free-ly, dropped to tho pavement and fell to kicking. He kicked porslstently and furiously. furi-ously. Then ho Jumped up and ran about In a circle, describing a number of geometric geo-metric llguros that would have astoundod old Euclid hlmsolf. Ho tacked Ilko a cathoat In a ntorm pardon tho mixed metaphor from one side of the street to the other, then ho bounded Into tho air and turned somersaults somer-saults and stood upon his head. Finally ho made a wild run at a tree and missed, tumbling headlong Into the street. People appeared and looked In wonder nnd amazement. A score of dogs from far and near ran and apparently wero greatly Interested In tho proceedings. Boys, girls and kitchen maids, sent to meat shop and grocery for quick supplies, loHt sight of tho purpose of their errands nnd forgot to return. Many breakfasts wore delayed. Then Patrolman Pierce appeared. Ills diagnosis of the case was pertinent. "It's plain drunk." declared he. "Too much barloycom." Then ho hauled Murray to hla feet and oscortcd him to tho police station. There Murray's "drunk" developed devel-oped Into a fighting "Jag" and It roriuirod the combined strength of three or four men to subdue nnd land him In his cell. Thore ho pounded the walls and yelled and screamed until exhausted. |