, 1876-08-11
Hanging Up an Errand Bov in n
Cellar.
Revival Of tile Old Custom Of Tor
turing for n Confession.
The Boy Manages to Escape. by Prom
Using to Return tho Money,
And Titus Succeeds In Reaching His
Fathers Home.

irtratIon Of Justice into their own hands. Tn
fortunately fur thc!r lIans Interference stcppcd
In In the shape OF policeman, who 1cacaed thc!r
victim. and placed Orlando o. Clark In IN en-.
baftaAxinR p0slttun.
There stc four pcupie engaged In the store Of
Mccormick T. Clark, which Is an ordinnry retail
establishment. They nrc. besides tho Two part
ners, clerk named licnry NobEn4un and boy
nAncd Solomon SwAr.z. i,ntiness with tic firm
has not, apparently, bccn very thriving, for It IL
only recently that they have mnvcd into their
present place from morc central location ncar TIC
corner Of Clark and hFadfsoa stfccts. Clark has
generally borne good reputation. ~ wEl1 N
Mccormick. though the present affair shows them
up in light altogether novel and unenyiahe,
All Of the four partcs mentioned above are con-
cetned In the natter, ahoug:, the chief participants
were Clark and tho boy swRrtz. the former being
the agsrcssor and the latter the object Of atnck,
In playful mood C!atk hung tic hny t,y r1pc on
an lmptoy!aed gallowe, and II liz did not stay hung
until lie dead It can scarcely be attributed to
the fault q! the jaaloF parsncs. His Intentions did
not weaken 40 much As hft mutclc. During The
funny ept%odc the clerk. Robinson. md the scnur
partner, Met:orrsek. stood around to prevent es.
cape and chj1yCd tito *Cerc.
ThK cAGsE Or THE LITTLE rnAcAs,
which occurred IN the basement Of thy store, Was
y ss. n'S ssnpisess en tas
to u*e 10 pay note. They missed thetv kcy, and.
h0xf ts ILL., Ill., ssse ss 's ts Lad .nsau,y esn oss
conclusion that the ioy lad tic nv.
md, having Tie KY, had taken tic fIntfs.
Al 10 r"eT of H. stsfe MN, thc saes i,n ~
The baae,aemt. Both lie partners were ont, "nfy
tcar Of thr atorc, sayng he wt,hc rV,o tic water
csoset. Pfssea;Iy one Of the pnr,ssrs rrturned.
vent to tho deak ana found the drawer locked and
neihnus that tjatk lad The kew. Or that Tobtmson'
lie clerk, dad thc iey-but he didnt suppnte nv
tfat noss!h,y II hid been ,n,tjsI by th~ clark "r
the partner, bat be nppsrcaily Didn't have any sueh
tsoS s Gt15esd M sS Gnd y p hs
stnrc cc}lar. a,t tyInr rone aronnd his nsrk WV
SWUNG HiM u UNTIL ne nEcAMf: issEssintE.
annthine sharitV thMt marked lin All 1t onse au
G tas s 'ns ,s tss oa1 cut the
{Thnt mnTcs whv th5 nnrcnts ~ vnn,, S,:o-+1
sde t%s1 an osGn ss Men e + n ot
s nsGs IL n5s so9 fy ats s ss M wfs 1
9na wse affea M On FL e
eriMc ~ nssnsit wns cv"n "rrrtrr th.n II" cri,,.
Gf x s, @ sasa asis The bsas2 9aa @ e 600 ball. ~ha the
so,onan sx,, WHAT TIL r,;s nor ,f.A sArs; ,, n, ,..
~ @ SlsFk st.:st Va frther ss IT, !. shosmas
ap ;o on ' IT, as Tae q tbs
ani iu,prcs.es one fa,orably The mother il port.
" md alably EuarrutaNa. while there arc any-
where from dozen to score Of brothers and
''1T T6cy s,1 clustered around THE n,nuxx reporter
who called upon then, last evening, and becai
fuslllaIle Of c8clamntions about the cnornily OF
the critlc rcrlntrAtcd upon their relative. The
sklmoo and deaance Mr,t,eas npoa Ne. ordiaa.
rlIy placid countcnancc. THE fntt.er sat upon Ills
working bctlch anti nnrsed his knee. rocking
e.in .nes' ,pss yo,,nrnfr s,rnri, ,ytn ra.rrt
putting to sleep. Then there the aunt, WIN il
alwnys summoned Oh spccia family occasions. fam
ming herrslf ussluouHty with palt.l- leaf and in
terjsc,tns remarks VII, greal yEor q lung The
er tue, could get a hold. The hoy who wa. the o,
ject OF al THU soeltaae and tho canse OF all the
ftttc coinn1pt!en formed the central figure Of the
interesting group. 'e'''''
SnId be-; ssTais noon tue clerk, Harry rnlinson,
had 1utt left tic. store, when sir. Mccormick
n fcw minutes aftcr II o'clock. str MeCormick
raid r. >:
~ md run aste. Robinson, anu ask him for
tho kys." '
t.Tsa rir, F" said !, md started ont nn a ran.
caught up With lin a. ie crner of Monroe and
Flute, md told lin, ihnt ,Sr Mccorr.ck waited
+Lu ,1l,3 hnv1 t,I,t Eo thrt,}.t