Show ALMOST A FATALITY karro escape of a wells ills in anier anae the influence 0 of L giai Li ai u what might have been a fatal accident was narrowly averted last monday night by the breaking of a set of harness and a pair of shafts about half past nine in the evening marshall tab standing digon on th ericke corner jn ia conversation with C 1 1 cummings immings Cl when a man staggered daggered past them under the influence of liquor ile he was a stranger to them theia both but his conduct mas so BO disgraceful that marshal mcculloch McCu said eaid if you dont belong hero in town you had tetter get your rig and get out of this right away the man muttered in a maudlin manner but continued conti nuel on until lie ha disappeared fr in view mcculloch wondered he had bad vanished an and started to investigate lie ile saw av the stranger attempting to get into a buggy in the vacant lot between the opera dilouie and kew ken leys levs place of business 7 after fter many efforts be crawled up in into to the sealand seat and fell fo riNard across the dash board but lie got back into the seat and started through the alley south of the opera house rouse the horse tumid bouth and mcculloch watched the vehicle over the first canal bridge and was about to turn away when he saw the man reel forward f then he heard beard a crash running to the bridge he saw first a runaway horse dragging a shafi shafe in the distance under the main street electric lights next nest he saw the wreck of a buggy and the drunk man rising from the ground with the exception of a cut cul on his ear caused by the wheel and a slight 0 scratch on the head the man mail was unhurt his conduct was such that the mar elial placed him under arrest and took him to police headquarters when the man gave eave his name as T A kerr of we Is ville A friend alfriend of mr kerrs kerra entered then and offered to take the drunk man houle home mcculloch said baid that he was then under arrest and would have bare to deposit some money with the t he city or give bond for his appearance ap pp rice otherwise lie he bould be compelled to put him in jail key keir r said ajust i just pave gave a bond and wrote it on that desk over there pointing to a corner where there was N as neither desk nor table I 1 at last lie ha deposited four and a half dollars for his bit appearance and was released upon the promise of the friend tu to take luke him homo home abor considerable kerr was induced to pet get into a big wagon which carried him happily home it was indeed fort fortunate url ito the cruces harness gave way to that we doubt not mr kerr owes his good health and perhaps his sis lenco today LATER it has been ascertained since the above was written that to ane T A kerr refe refereed ried to in the foregoing is the nominee oa the so called ci citi liens ens ticket or the republican ticket for assessor against 0 1 molen 81 olen |