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Show HURRY TO PROTECT COUNTY STRONG BOX ! Accidental Step on Button for Alarm Brings Deputies Scurrying to Office of Treasurer. n With the reckless haste of college boys participating in a flag rush, six deputies ; clambered over the counter in the sheriff's sher-iff's office at 5 o'clock last night, crowded crowd-ed out the doorway, across the corridor and into the county treasurer's office to cry in excited chorus, "What is it?" "Nothing." answered a young man behind be-hind one of the office wickets. Someone called him Mr. Houghton and his initials are J. Ij. on the payroll. He had the appearance ap-pearance of believing himself when he said, "Nothing." "But the burglar alarm!" shouted the deputies. "It rang in the sheriff's office." of-fice." Houghton protested that he knew nothing noth-ing about any burglar alarm. A deputy explained that someone must have touched in the treasurer's office a but- i , ton that sounds the alarm bell in the ! : sheriff's office, provoking such prompt I response for protection of the county's strong box. ! Then it was that one of the older employees em-ployees of the office entered the cage where Houghton stood and showed him ! that he must have lnadventently touched one of the buttons with his foot.. Houghton Hough-ton blushed, grinned and looked as if he I did not believe himself at all. |