The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-10

III mas OIten Dcen SAID, ana Is well
known that Cairo is the best place in the
world to ruin moral man who is suscept-
IDLE to SIM This was illustrated yesterday
in the person Of Kentuckian who we will
call Brown. A few weeks ago Brown, with
a two-horse team, lett his wife in Ballard
county, promising her that he would return
some time IN the future with heavy purse,
to be earned in the work of graveling
Cairo streets. Weeks passed, but Mrs. b.
failed to receive any information, not to
speak OF money, from her liege lord. Yes
terday about noon peculiar looking ic-
male, with short canary dress made prob
ably for swampy country, faded green
overskirt, smg III straw hat cooked over the
left optic, and'shoes well laden with the
free soil of Kentucky, came prancing down
Commercial avenue scattering oaths and
language equal to a Judas priest upon an
individual who was perched upon a wagon
that was coming from the same direction.
The teamster was the talthlcss Brown, and
the iratc female no other than Mrs. Brown
AS she arrived at point near Schuh's cigar
store, where crown OF men had congre-
gated, she became desperate, She looked
at Brown, scratched her elbow, and said
"I'll be id if it weren't for the law I'd
pull the - off of that wagon and make
a corpse Of m in minute" This was too
shocking, and it scattered the crowd in diff
ferent directions The teamster and Mrs.
Brown passed on and the last words heard
were, "There will be a settlement before
night, or I'll know what's what"
The police officers on the lower beat
had a lively time Of it Sunday night, or
rather Monday morning. At about two
o'clock Officers Lally and Bunker after
making round in and along Walnut
street, came out on Eighth street to Wash
ington avenue, and were standing in the
dark, under the awning in front of Messrs.
Pettis & Birds store, when they saw two
colored men peeping over the fence out of
r. II. Cunningham's yard. The negroes
started toward eighth street, but seeing the
officers turned and went in the opposite
direction. The officers followed when the
darkies, although ordered to halt started to
run, and Notwithstanding three shots were
fired at them-two by Officer Lally and
one by Dunker--they made Seventh street
and escaped in the dark The report OF
the pistol attracted Sergeant Schuckers and
Officer Hogon to the assistance OF Lally
and Bunker, and the former taking in the
situation, stationed Lally at the corner of
Fourth and Washington avenue, and Dun
ker at the corner of Fifth and Washington,
knowing that nine chances TO
one, the negroes would attempt to
get in by one or the
other Of these routes to
find lodging place. Officer Lally had
scarcely got settled down when he dscov-
cred two negroes answering the description
Of the men he had seen come out Of Mr.
Cunningham's yard, in front Of one Of the
negro dives on Fourth street between Wash
ington and Commercial avenues. On the
approach Of the officer one of the men en-
tered house kept by q negro prostitute
named Harriet Burnett, and the othe
went in the direction of Ohio evee. Off
Ger Lally notified Sergeant Schuckers, and
the two in very short time had one of the
darkies, Lewis Barker q notorious thief
and confidence man, under arrest and con.
fined in the city jail They then went to
the house kept by the woman Burnett in
search of the other man, and while Officer
Lally was at the back door and Schuckers
at the front door the fellow made his es.
cape by jumping through a side window
and disappearing through the weeds, Off
Ger Schuckers sending two bullets after
him as he ran. The officers
captured the coat, hat and shoes OF the es-
capped thief, and locked the women Burnett
up on charge Of harboring and abetting
thieves. She was taken out yesterday and
fined $500. The negro Barker is an old
offender, and has once before served term
in Jail here. He will have hearing to-
morrow afternoon at two o'clock. Caldwell,
the man who made his escape is an expert
theft, in one of the pockets was found the
usual five cards used by confidence men.
All things considered the officers did a
very neat peice Of work, for which they
deserve credit
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THE NEWS.