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Show NARItOW ESCAPE TOR A BICYCLIST Explo:icn cf the Tire of a Wheel Starts a Cry That a Boy Had Been S'jct and a Mob Forms Explanations Were Necessary A Strange Coincidence. Circumstantial evidence, which by H queer turn of fate attached itself to I.eland Fife, machinist of the Southern Pacific shops, yesterday afternoon af-ternoon alnr.-st made him the victim, of mob iolence, despite the fact that the young man was entirely iunocenl of wrongdoing. it was a cane which involved a man. a boy. a dog and a bicycle, and incidentally in-cidentally a crowd of misguided Indignant Indig-nant men and women. It happened on Twenty-second street when Fife was riding his wheel home. The neighborhood neigh-borhood seemed as serene and peaceful peace-ful as the village commented upon by Goldsmith when a cannon-like report Jost behind the bicyclist told him that his back tire had blown out. Fife leaped from the bike. Now, It chanced that ai email boy with a wee dog was passing and the boy, with curiosity aflame, made a rush for Fife and his punctured tire and tripped trip-ped over the dog The canine bowled and the boy, hurt by the fall, gave vent to a series of screams 'he comblnalion OI sounds bringing to Ihe scene a crowd of the neighbors and all persons who hap-.pened hap-.pened to be within a block. 'J o a feminine fem-inine mind the circumstances prove I that Fife had attempted to shoot the loy's dog and the bullet had probably prob-ably struck the boy. The bicyclist was surrounded and plied with angry questions. It looked as though something some-thing was going to happen to him before be-fore he could finally convince the crowd that he eer owned a gun in his life and that it was only a case of a punctured tire |