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Show 1 WILLIAM AND HIS SMILE. Ill Cblcseo Police Meet, an OrlglnAl Cbamcter lu Overalls. The most original clmrncter with whom the polite hiive h;id to do for months struck t-jwn oi) Tuesiliiy His name is William HexforJ, and he haila from a fnrm near , Sioux City, In. Wiilinm is a blonde fnced, long eared country boy of nineteen years, ! wears blue overalls, a hickory shirt and an expausive, guileless Bniile. After leaving the train William bought a fifteen cent . dinner, and then found himself penniless , a.nd idone in a atrange city. I But William was not dismayed. He I trudged along Milwaukee avenue, gazing at the sights aud attracting no small degree ; of attention himself, lie stopped to look 1 in the window of George Toborg's gun 1 store. Then he grinned more broadly than ' ever and entered the store. He priced several revolvers and finally selected a large double action one nod said he'd take it. He also said he would take a box of cartridges, and started to loud the weapon. The proprietor anxiously Interfered and offered to do the loading himself, fearful that this guileless country lad did not know how. Then ilr, Toborg explained how the weapon worked and handed it back to William with a "four dollars, please," smile, which made William grin broader than ever. "Hand over yer cash, mister," said William, Will-iam, still smiling, and Leveling the loaded revolver at the proprietor's head. He threw up his hands and gasped, "Murderl murder I" and fell, rather than rau, the whole length of the store and out of tloord. There he fouud Officers Dietz and Kossiter. The two officers, with dark lanterns and cocked revolvers, searched the rear of the store for the guileless William, aud then groped their way down to the basement. William was behind a post, revolver in hand. He received the officers with his habitual grin, and threw up his bauds, remarking; re-marking; "Well, I'll be gosb derned!" William is lodging at the Ruwsoq street police station, where he has already become a great favorite. He has confided to his new found friends that he thought it would be an easy matter to replenish his pocket-book pocket-book in Chicago by holding up people. He I said he was "down to Omaha" a couple of years ago, and "held up a well dressed fel kr and pulled $r00 outen his pockets." "But," continued William, in smiling confidence and giving his overalls a hitch, 'they ketch ed me and sent me up for a year. Then I went back to farmin'. On my way back to Chicago I stopped off for a week ag'n and had just fair luck." William says he has no "pertickler" objections ob-jections to going to Joliet "fer a Bpell." Chicago Tribune. |