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Show mm i Get Him to Jump Into 1 a Canal to Save a Man of Straw Chicago. Oct. 12. There Is one po- liceman in Chicago who will always look twice hereafter before he leaps j to rescue another drowning man. 1 1 i name is Frank Lynch, special police-1 man for the Sanitary board. Lynch was standing at the drainage ( canal at ICedzle avenue, when he s;iw a crow of tiuall bovs rushing toward him. "Oh. Mr. Copper." cried an urchin, j "(here's a man just drowned In the canal." "Where." shouted Lyuch. "Show me. quick." The boys led him to the spot where a hat layj on the bank 'Oh. rave my father," cried one of the boys. The policeman took riff his shoes and plunged In, forgetting to remove his belt and two heavy revolvers. The cunal Is twenty-two feet deep At the bottom Lynch found what appeared ap-peared to be n human IhhIv. He ; bronuht It to the top after losing his revolver, only to find that the burden was a "man-' of straw, wood and rags. Moreoer, his cold watch was cone from his coat and h!s shoes had been filled with buckshot by the hoys. |