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Show She Didn't Shoot. At the Geo. Q. Cannon residence in the Fourteenth ward, where the deputies made several anrests last Sunday, a little incident occurred which has since been utilized as material for a genuine romance, in which a young lady named Mary Alice ,, Cannon figures as the heroine and Deputy Vandercook I as the prosy villain. The youn lady wa3 at the house mentioned", and manifested some opposition of a harmless kind to the officer's process. During the time Mr. Vandercook was reading" the warrant to her she drew a pistol, and presenting it at the deputy, asked him how he would like her to shoot him. She became so persistent per-sistent in her nonsense that jthe deputy took the unloaded weapon from her, and the story ha3 been constructed from this that the brave girl after enduring the most violent treatment at the hands of the deputy scared him off with her shooter. The young lady has entertained the students at the University on several occasions with a thrilling account of this incident in which she makes herself pose as an outraged but courageous heroine, bruised and ill-treated, but one too manv for the officer, who was terror-stricken by her . wonderful act. The joke of the thing is the deputy did not have occasion to ill-treat her and paid no attention to her ridiculous manoeuvering with the harmless pistol, except to take it awav from her. . - - " |