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Show Gives Bandits Shoes, but Fails to Kick In Kansas City, Mo. Now conies Alva Gosheru, student of legerdemain and likely contender for the honors of IloTidini, Thurston, Kellar and the rest who charged $2 a seat for many years to prove that tlie hand Is quicker quick-er than the eye. Goshern bears the distinction of having been forced into an alley by two holdup men, robbed of his shoes, 30 cents, his trousers, and saving $41 he was carrying. He reported to police that he saw the two men approaching near his home early in the morning and just had time to stick the S-ll in bi 1 1 a in Ills shoe before the command of "hands up" was heard. He was forced into an alley and ordered to take off his shoes and trousers. Now for an ordinary man this would have spelled disaster, but not for Gosiiern. As he removed the shoe doing temporary tem-porary duty as a safety deposit vault be executed one of those "twists of the wrist" magicians utilize. The $41 landed in a trash heap. Later as he trekked home In his unmentionables, un-mentionables, tightly clutching the money, he reaffirmed faith In the old axiom that he who laughs- gets laughed at. |