Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-04
BRASSER'S son CLAUDICS.
The Fan He Made for a Neighbours Boy
Disturbing the Old Eof&s-I G. God Shot
Smashing Glass and 1rousinJ a Police
From the Detroit Free Press

Disturbing the Old Fofks-I Good Shot
Smashing Glass and -frousinJ n Police
man.
From the Detroit Free Press.l
Mr.. Brasser, who lives on Ninth
avenue, has son about twelve years
old named Claudius, and the other even
ing this boy received permission to allow
a neighbours boy to stay all night with
him. The old people sleep down stairs
in the sitting-room, and the boys were
put into room directly above. When
they went up to the bed Claudius had
the clothes-line under his coat, and the
neighbours boy had a mask in his pocket.
They didn't kneel down and say their
prayers like good boys and then Jump
into bed and tell bear stories, but as
soon as the door was locked the Brasser
boy remarked:
You'll see more fun around here to-
night than would lie on a ten-acre lot I"
From a closet they brought out cast
off suit of Brasser's clothes, stuffed them
with whatever came handy, tied the
mask and an old straw-hat on for head,
and while one boy was carefully raising
the window the other was tying the
clothes-line around the "man" The
image was lowered down in front of the
sitting room window, lifted up and down
once or twice, and old Brasser was heard
to leap out of bed with great jar. He
was just beginning to doze when he
heard sounds under his window, and his
wife suggested that it was COW in the
yard. He got up, pulled the curtain
away, and as he beheld man standing
there he shouted out /:
"Great bottles but it's a r1bber !"
and he jumped into bed.
"TheodoriuS Brasser, are you fool !"
screamed the wife as he monopohzed all
the bedclothes to cover up his head.
''Be quite, You old jade, you T" he
whispered perhaps he'll go away"
"Don't you call me jade" she re-
Piled, reaching over and trying to find
his hair. sGit up and git the gun and
blow his head off,
"Oh, you do it !"
"Git up, you old coward" she
snapped. "Tll never live with you an
other day If you don't do it ="
Brasser tairned up the lamp, sat up in
bed, and cried out
9" Is that YOU, boys''
mercy on me git up" yelled the
wife as the STRAW man was knocked agains.
the window.
"I1l blow his head off as clean as
milk :" said Brasser III loud voice as he
got up. He struck the stove three or
four times, upset chair, and reached
behind the foot of the bed and drew out
an oldarmy mrrsket.
"Now, then, for blood." he contin-
ued, as he advanced to the window and
lifted the curtain.
lic uisiii WIS liiciC, idCS C1''cC " tHO
glass, and he had such malignant ex-
preston of countenance that Brasser
jumped back with cry of alarm.
"Kill him, Shoot him down, you
old noodle-head !" screamed tie wife.
"I wildly thunder, 1 will r" replied
Brasser, and he blazed away, and tore
out nearly all the lower sash.
The boys up stairs uttered a yell and
a groan, and Brasser jumped for the
window to see If the man was down.
He wasn't. He stood right there, and
he made a leap at Brasser.
"He's coming in .-perlice boys =
no !-perlice - roared the old man.
The tattered curtain permitted Mrs.
Brssser to catch sight of man jumping
up and down, and she yelled:
Theodorius, I'm going to faint"
"Faint and be darned! Boys per
lice." he replied, wolloping the sheet
iron stove with the poker.
"Don't you dare talk that way to me-"
shrieked the old woman, recovering from
her desire to faint.
"Po-leece Po-leece" now came
from the boys up stairs, and while one
continued to shout, the other drew the
man up, tore him limb from limb, and
secreted the pieces.
Several neighbors were aroused, an
officer came up from the station, and a
search of the premises was made. Not
so much as a track in the snow was found,
and the officer put on an injured look
and said to Mr.. Brasser:
"a guilty conscience needs no ac-
cuser."
"That's so 7" chorused the indignant
neighbors as they departed.
As Mr.. Brasser hung quilt beforethe
shattered window he remarked to his
wife:
"Now see what an old cundurango you