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Show HOLD KCMI I0U TAME. ILlJAit I Bion At l LIE3 TAK AD FEATltrito TO UIMSELF. Jahnltu.hmeyer, a stableman of Brooklyn, 11. U, raw a eight on Thursday night which froze his blood with liofTor, siys tho IS'ew Vork IlerahU hi ing on a truck in side the curb was a woful kind of bird, with body nearly as big as an ostrich, and a croak or groan that v.ouId ImM: done credit to a dying sea lion. ItUshmeyerwentuototho bird and the bird raid, Hop) lug his wlug dolorously: ' For God's sake u.ml fnrn nrlt mill a doctor, for i atndjiug." Pollcemin Edwtrd Glynn, of the Lee Avenue slation,w as summoned, and when ho saw the feathered biped besent a hurried call to the Homireiatbic Hospital. The bird, teteon his grpn. said he, had na3-l anpvemug ctMlnet'jlian-ery ctMlnet'jlian-ery Theatre and was on his way to hljJtxiilyn,hOTieJit fl Try ! reet when two men tsnratig from a passing pass-ing coach, .rucit him to tho earth and ttola away bis consclousues with a handkerchief saturated with chloroform. J ust before he Ktt cn-scIousui-s. he added with evident relish, he had bitten a pleco out ol the haiid 0 one of his assallauts and svaJljweJ it. Then he knew no more. When ho came lo himself he found all that was left of blnwlf lying on a truck and shivering with the cold. There were trousers on him and three coats a coat of tar, a cent of feathers and his jacket. His trousers rero tied at the anklts and he- eras a eight to roe. From wrist to neck ana from neck to heels all was feathers. One side of his laco wore plumage, while the other side was bald. Two detectives, Dolan an J TM-snd, TM-snd, under command of Cap' Q r man, of Lee Avenue, and two detectives, Campbell and Corcoran, under Capt,"8hort, of Bedford Avenue, Ave-nue, mart-tied fortu to find the rols-1 rrKiiiu who had thus outraged Citl-1 len Prior, while the entire medical gtafl o the HotnCMpathlo .Hospital sot to work to plucking feathers. They pulled a few out in the good old fashioned way, but thn patient screamed Willi real or simulated pain, so Ihe? let aitnntt until incniing under tho Influence of qUleUligUfa-gbts, when, after Dr. lwU liad laken a jihotograph of the queer bird, some geuius suggested sugges-ted sjap, ho. water aud ajrubhiug bni'h and the thing was done. Meanwhile tho detectives were. t llowlng a hot trail. Campbell and Corcoran remembered liavln.-.een Prior often about the G-and btreet Theater, where, inleed, he sought to eke out a livelihood byselllr.g Japanese trick book. They knew that lie wai often in the company of oue Larkln, an attache of that theater, aud they sought the latter out Alat! for Prior's tongue, lie had told Lirkln nil, and Latkin unbosomed un-bosomed lilinMjf to the detective?. Prior, he safd, had started out to mske a fortune of $2,000 out of the dime museums a Weird Willie, of W iliiamsburg.tlie Feathered Biped, etc. Through tho kind offlces of i 'rofesor Johnson, who docs the mcomerlc art at times and at other times haudies "freaks,'' he had secured se-cured an en-agement, with what particular museum LarIn could not say. On Thursday he had met Larkln, and had siIJ on parting "Goodby; when next you seo me I shall Le famoas." Tills ended Mr. Ltrkin's bu Igct of new. In tbo stablo of furniture Dealer Klrclinee, of Itdford Avenue, the policeman foand a wagou bestrewed with feathers. Thev were not long In finding that Wilfitm MeClaflerty, driver, and Wiilitm Hill, painter, two laJs of 19, ha 1 been Its drivers, and they soon bad the pair in custody. The pair confessed and took Hum to Johnson'd hojsc and there they found feathers by tbo peck and tne dark, tarry looking stutl which had been used to put It on; al a verj much chagrined mesmcri-t. There tiity learned tliat Prior had feathered feath-ered himself after Hie Professor had anointed his loJy with a delightful delight-ful preparation of lamp black, oil of tar and warm glue. A feather rjulltopened oil the floor had supplied sup-plied the fuzzy appendage, and into in-to thl the tar baby rolled himself and out of it came the gime bird whiPhhtd so frightened stableman Busbme,)er. From Johnson's house to the furniture wagon, and thence to tho cold truck where Prior was discovered, and tho stage was set for a grand sensation. AH hands, save Latkin, were ar-rcrtedand ar-rcrtedand taken to Lee Avenue Mation. Then a telephonic mes-age from tho Homrcojutbic HoiItal was received saj ing that Prior was dying, and Larkiu and the police-nun police-nun hateuiil to tho hospital and found the sufferer very law. Ills strength revived a liltlu when lie heard that larklu had let his little cat out of the bag, and he strenuously strenuous-ly repeated bis assertion that he lu J been a-3aultcd,but said that Larkln, Lar-kln, whom the deleetivrs pretended to accuse, had had no hand iu It. Tills was at cm , and Prior was becoming a good, deal Of a imliancc. Thu three prisoners were brought before Ju'tloe Gortlng, who in-Etrueted in-Etrueted Captain Gorm in to niske a charge b( assault in the second de-zrr-, on which lie held them in $1090 each. Tiien prior was placed under arrest ou a charge which nullified nul-lified the other charge. I hid a Ilt.le cli' z'uil Willie in his cell in the hospital after he had J.r UTMi.led of hlj ffjthers. u a v-eak voice he said i.u oue wrj to bjame bttt himself. He had paiuted find Iwrfeathcre'l himself aud e-o'i-peived the plot. Ho had done it all and done it alone, ho had no confederates con-federates save Johnson, not even a dime mu-eJm manager, and even Jiihnson was gulltles of evil Intent. Life. Just now, has few ehatms lor Tilhe Prior. |
