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Show gardlng the latter's work In sending him to the "pen" seven years ago. In the scuffle with Topman, tho latter tore a button from Woods shirt front. This button, with a pleee of cloth attached, was secured by Detective Pender, who after an exhausting ex-hausting search for the owner, llnal-ly llnal-ly located Wood's laundry and th-trrn th-trrn shirt. The arrest and conviction soon followed. NEGRO WOOD IS AGAIIJ JAIL John Wood, the negro crook who made a murderous assault on Tom Topman seven years ago and was sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years on evidence obtalued by Detective De-tective Pender, was arrested yesterday yester-day on information furnished by r. train crew on the Union Pacific who declared that he had terrorized them with murderous threats following an ntlempt to force him from the train Thursday evening. Wood is what the police term a "bad actor" und Is capable of turning turn-ing almost any kind of a trick known to criminals. He did not appear embarrassed em-barrassed yesterday after his arrest, but joked with Detective render re- |