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Show : Ills '4 "''illflfS J I ' 1027. Westirn Nrw.pnp,,- Aion.y.l J IResolutions of 1928 j p KSOLVED, to live with all )J y t my might while I do live. "J !Jj Uesolved, never to lose one mo- .j )i ment of time, to Improve It In J- K 'he most profitable wny I pos- () fl sibly can. Resolved, never to j( y do anything which I should de- -(j (j- spise or think meanly of In an- - K other. Resolved, never to do I. jj anything out of revenge. Re- J) V solved, never to do anything j Sj which I should he afraid to do !j i if It were the last hour of my Jj- ' Ife. Jonathan Edwards. (j! Jerry Cotter's New Year's Night By Marion Reagan f " 1 1 H pnjiers were tilled will) U fj iicconnts of the daring murders mur-ders of Jerry Cotter. The police offered a iberal pen-J pen-J L slon fur life lo rnyone of j-tt their stuff rindinf the crim-jUt" crim-jUt" iiial, and u reward of $10,-Af $10,-Af Jj )0() to any outsider who y'j hrought the dent, or live Hf body of Jerry Cotter to the a department, while Hie news-' news-' papers had together offered S.'iU.OOO for his capture, dead or alive. Me had killed two b:mk clerks In an iilleinpt to rub a law: Irink of more Hum one hundred thousand dollars. In the pursuit by the police which followed he hud shol five policemen. He was the most desperate of desperadoes. des-peradoes. Pictures ami descriptions of him appeared everywhere, lie had Jet black hair, a black mustache ami heavy eyebrows. New Year's night a lively scene was enacted at Fourth and Main streets. As the crowds f merrymakers poured out of a popular theater, a dark man with Jet black hair a h I a c U mustache and heavy eye hrows was seized by several police men. The man at tempted to escape. es-cape. Practically everyone In the holiday c r o w d. having read ol the wild shooting Colter was given lo. took to their beds. Cnly one brave person, a H man with light hair, almost no eyebrows eye-brows at all. and no mustache, stepped P to help the police. "Mighty line of yon. pardner. to help us out. You're taking a chance, you know. This Cotter's u hard egg." As the patrol wagon drove up. one of the policemen handed the fair-haired 'nan his card. "Tim Mahme's my name. If ever you need any service Hint I can render yon. let me know." And the three the dark-haired one In irons drove off. Several blocks Jown. the fair tenth-man turned Into a fiiiiet, modest street and walked into the third house. An elderly, kindly woman met I'i'ii at the door. "Oh. you take such chances. Jerry, pon't you know the police will find you; you're too bold.' "Never worry, mother, they'll never , ' alch Jerry Cotter. I start the New Year even with a great friend at the Police ollici Tim Malone. He'll roll-'''r roll-'''r me nny service I happen to need." I:'i-glied the man as he drew off the b-'u wig with his hat. exposing slick, blad; ,., ir underneath. Ocl m;7. Wesou-n Newspaper L'nln. |
