Show TRIED PIP STEALING BUT MADE A MISERABLE FAILURE OP IT THROUGH CAUSING A SYRACUSE MAN considerable TROUBLE two men carrying doubled shotguns shot guns alighted from a pair of jaded horses in front of the police station about tour yesterday morning and proceeded to unravel a lale ot woe to captain browning and the officers at the station at that hour their story ain be likened to the old nursery jingle of tom pipers soa for while it was considerably longer and more harrowing 11 also concerned a pig the couple from syracuse were J W sherman and his hired man ac cording to their story mr sherman was awakened about midnight by the agonized squealing ot a pig which ho bad been carefully fitting tor a fate to be meted out to it during the christmas holidays hurriedly dressing mr sherman hurried out to the scene ot the excitement with a shotgun in hia hand what was his surprise to find that a stranger had loaded the pig into a wagon and was about to drive off when the etra ager was asked or an explanation he stated that he had bought the pig of a man the day before mr sherman invited him at the muzzle of the shotgun shot gun to return the pig to the pen which was done during the excitement ot getting the animal into the pen mr sherman was thrown off his guard and lowered tha gun when ahe stranger instantly grappled with him and was eflowly gatling the best ot the struggle when the hired man appeared on the and proceeded to beat his employers assailant over the head with another shotgun shot gun the stock of which was broken by the violence ot the blows the stranger finally eluded both his assailants and getting in his wagon drove hurriedly in the direction ot mr sherman and his hired man bridled two horses and started in pursuit they arrived in ogden over the road but said the would be pig thief had turned off in the dl of hooper and they wanted the police to go after him mr sherman was informed that the police could not go over into dails county to arrest a man under the circumstances cum stances unless a warrant had been I 1 obtained the croper way would be to enlist the services 0 the syracuse constable when convinced ot this mr bherman and his man left the station to tor home when they discovered that their horses which bad been tied to the posta in front of the station ahad slipped their bridles and escaped with the bridles on one arm and the guns over their shoulders the ared pig thief ib untera started in tee grey hours of morning to walk back to syracuse |