Show TAKING NO CHANCES Man Sought Safety ty from Lightning by Assuming Position a la Alligator The police at atNo No o. o 4 station are anxiously trying to solve this query Why does lightning never strike an aD alligator During the storm the other afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon Patrick Lacey the colored policeman po- po iceman attached to the station and who is Is at present presen engaged tin in ln janitor work fips as cleaning the walls walls when the l struck the gong of pf the patrol wagon That was enough for Lacey who did not stand upon the ceremony of his going but went The attaches of the station searched for him for about two hours apprehensive apprehensive that the lightning had got him but ultimately Inspector R. R S. S Gray found him lying flat on his stomach on a a pile of sawdust in the cellar On being asked what he was doing there Lacey Tracey put this query to the Inspector Did you ever hear of an alligator being struck by lightning No why It is for that reason I am on my stomach Pittsburg stomach PIttsburg Press |