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Show BEAR TRAP SET FOR OFFICERS. Surprise for Deputy Marshals In the Tennessee Mountains. The gaping jaws of a bear trap Is what confronted Deputy United States Marshal John Blankenship. Deputy Marshal George Sharp and others when they made a raid the other night into the mountains of Blount county. ' In the posse were the two deputies mentioned and Deputy Revenue Collector Col-lector J. S. Remine. They left this city and went to the North Carolina line, and there located a distillery alleged al-leged to have been owned and operated oper-ated by "Uncle Sara" Burchfleld. It was in the fastness of the mountalu, and as the officers were Just on the point of leapipg from the roof into tho little house Messrs. Blankensbip and Sharp spied the bear trap, and crawled back. . They, were both on the point of leaping down at the same time, and had they done so they would have been instantly caught in the trap. The trap 13 said to have been one of the largest ever seen In the mountains of East Tennessee. Burchfield had escaped, but it is said that he will be arrested: but the officers in quest of him will look out in the future for man traps as well as bear traps. Knoxville Sentinel. |