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Show LaiaiaiaiaiaS i Didn't Catch Him. H A good joke is being laid on Marshal H Thomnfl nnil Policeman Austin. It H ' -would eeem Unit luet, Wednesday night B was a rather unusually cold one and H that there were certain pereonB in Lohi h early in the evening whose prospects fo H obtaining a bed t'tat niglit were not H very luiglit. At nny rate, when Joseph : Wolston came out of Kiikhnm'sston H lio found that an excellent pair ot H ' .blankets had been purloined from hit ' buggy which hud been left just out M Bide. Our'peace officers were soon in 1 4,hot pursuit" mid after a lot of rkillful H I nvork located eaid blaureta in a corner B of Frank Cook's lot, sonic time the next H ( -day. But it was not tlio blankets tbnt H -were wanted so much as the purloinor 1 thereof, eo a young man, brave and aaVaaiaiaV H courageous, Has stationed at a con- H venient spot to capture the robbor bold H when he came in the evening to carry H his H The yuiinguitui, biave and couragiors, stood faithfully at his post listening H eagerly for tiie approach of the robber fl hold tiil tlio night shades began to H envelop thecal tit. Then, so the story H goes, the young man began to feel the H chill air of evening and -stepped inside H the hout-'e to warm himself; some say n fl maiden fair was the cause of this. Hut H this matters little, tor, while driving oft" H thet'lull or while otherwise engaged, B the robber bold scoured his hidden H booty and iiau not been heard of since H Some at e cruel enough to say that the 1 young man bravo and courageous, tuw H the robber bold and gave swift cIiuhu H for many blocks, but all in vuin. I -- |
