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Show CAD DAIES GREASED, MOTORMIN GIVEN I A FRIGHT Halloween has passed but echoes of th- last evening aro being heard at police headquarters In the shape of calls over the telephones Various forms of vandalism were rejorted from the old triek of stealing the gate to placing dummies on car trruks to frighten the inolormen. Some other reports were received which border on the criminal and are being investigated. investiga-ted. Two automobiles wre used by "joy riders" last night and were left to be found this morning. William Furdy's runabout was taken from the high school and was found by David Evani On Twenty-second street this morning Dr W E Worrell's auto, taken from In front of the Oxford hotel, was re covered early this morning. One false alarm was received by the fire department A useless run was made to Lincoln avenue and Thirty-second street at 10 L'O o'clock last evening. Wilson brothers' store at Lincoln avenue and Twenty-eighth street re ported that a large stone had been thrown through a ?50 plate glass win dow Investigation showed, however, howev-er, that nothing had been taken from the store William Richardson tells a good 6lo- ry of a trick that nearly resulted In. the death of a motorman through' ir'ghi. liii hardson was riding on th" frout end of a Washington avenue car At a point near Twenty-ninth street,! on Washington avenue, the motorman distinguished the figure ol a man stretched across the tra l From appearances it lookei) aj ttlOVgD nn Intoxicated person had stumbled and was sleeping off a drunk. The air was shammed into the brakes to stop the car. To the horror of the motor- j man, the car would not stop. 1 he wheels slid on the greased rails over the figure. When the body was found to be a dummy, the motorman regain-oil regain-oil s-i-lf- cm j ooii re on |