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Show , A Fool-Lunatic at Large. As two gentlemen were going home on South Main street last night at about 9 o'clock, a man named Dulaney accosted them at the corner of Fourth South and demanded what' they wanted. One of the two told him to take his hand out of liis hip pocket and explain himself. "Well," said he, "I am a Montana man and on returning home, I find some monkey-business going on ; I have been about my house, the second one from the corner, ever since dusk, and I am going to camp ' in that door yard - till 5 o'clock in the morning and no one . had - best come around, either." Just then the police, who had been telephoned for, approached . the corner, and Dulaney started off at a brisk gait. On nearing the house Mrs. Dulaney Dula-ney and her children, in company com-pany with several neighbors, were found half - frightened to death for fear that the enraged and "desperate man who had been to the house and smashed up most of the furniture and broken the window panes, would carrv out his threats and shoot them, Mrs. Dulaney Du-laney and her children were persuaded to go to one of the hotels for the night and the officers lay in wait for some time to get the mad man. Dulaney managed to avoid being caught in passing the corner several times when th officers were reconnoitering in another direction. He kept his hand in his pocket and would scale the fences at a single jump ; start down the street like a race horse and suddenly appear on the scene. The officers did not get him, and it is presumed pre-sumed he has quieted down somewhat and will now allow the neighborhood a peaceful night's rest. . ' |