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Show oncoiuin.; nine hi in s When t lif d'iwr siuwod down nr pit out tj i:rcli for the "pfr::'in," I hi hoys pullcl I he dii mi my t'ov cover. Deputy Shciiti" Thomas Fnssua promised the dumniy-niakers ;1 visit to the county detention home if he heard of any more "prostrations. SHERIFF HALTS , AUTO PRANKS' i I COLEBROOK, O. ll!i A small i boy prank successfully designed to scare from seven to ten years' growth out of the average motorist, motor-ist, has been stopped by the county coun-ty sheriff's office. A driver on State Highway 46. north of here, would sec a figure suddenly projected in front nf his i automobile collapsing in the road. Horrified, the driver would net in- j stantly. The machine would swerve, tire squealing. One ear j almost turned over. Others missed j the ditch by inches. i His heart pounding, the driver j would stop, get out and begin to ! search for the prostrate body. 1-Uit ' there was no body. j People began to investigate. ' They found, finally, that several boys had fashioned a straw dum-; my, and lying hidden along Iho ' roadside would tors, it in front of |