| Show A after a crazy negro oa saturday morning sheriff fowler received a telegram from selectman holdaway who is engaged at soldiers summit on a B R G it contract stating that a colored insane man had gassed there and was very orous to the inhabitants as lie was carrying a large bowie knife with him jhc thc telegram desired the sheriff to take steps to secure him in protection of the citizens the sheriff boarded the eastbound D II 11 G train and arranged with the operators on the road bo that if the man passed clear creek they were to notify the officer so that he could stop off and secure him not hearing anything until tin train run into clear creek station the sheriff stepped off the train tha first thins ho saw was a negro standing at the end of the first house in town with a huge knife in his hand two women were at the other end of alib house in great fear apparently the sheriff went up to the neero wrenched the knife from his handland han dand threw it in the creek alie crazy man barefooted started up the canyon crossed the creek and ran up the mountain like a deer the officer after him mr AL brinton and some other railroad men here joined in the chase they finally succeeded in overtaking him he wag overpowered and handcuffed the sheriff brought him on the next train to provo and lie is now in the county jail awaiting the examination of thu ph si ceans for commitment to alie asylum |
