The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-07

She hailed a convenient cab. She
gave instructions, in which possibly the
word "Sorosis' might have been dis
tinguished. She was rapidly driven
away.
Arthur and his exultant captor, un-
suspicious that this "deG er mdchind"
had thus eloped, reached the court
house. A roundsman stood upon the
| stoop.
"What hev We there, Mike2" he famil-
iarly asked the officer.
IA snake teef Wan of the wust Of
'em. I've been on to him this twelve
mont"
"He looks it," was the consoling com
| ment
They went before the committing
magistrate. He was red-faced, squat
| ty man, seated behind a yellow-grained
| desk and enveloped as to the neck with
a smudgy handkerchief. Upon the desk,
| beside his feet, were an ink-stand and a
! sticky book.
"What is it, ofIicerp" he queried, un-
winding the handkerchief.
"a case of larceny from the pusson,
sor."
"Kiss the book"
81 wull, sor;" and he added little
| more sickness to it.
'Are you the complainant"
sol am, sor."
"Then you were present at the com
| mission of this offense?"
"Divil bit, yer ahnor, no more thin
yerself. How cud 1 be? Twas on the
Elevated train, yer ahnor, above me
bate. Shure, I'm no thrack-walker."
"Silence, sirl Where is the person
from whom the property was taken2"
"Oh, shure, long, lane female in
| black, for all the wurruld like the Witch
of Endy, was following us but mo-
ment sence. Twas she it was from
whom he TUX it."
81 must discharge this man. There
is no evidence on which to hold him."
'Phat, yer ahnor! Whi4 he sazed her
| by the two wrists and wrastled it from
her like the thavin' blaggard that he is,
| shure!"
Ibid you see him do it?"
CAV coorse, yer ahnor, was not
there, but I'll swear to it just the
same"
Young man." said the magistrate,
turning to the stricken Arthur, ''what
have you got to say for yourself?"
"If you please, sir, if you please" he
faltered, with trembling lips, 81 want
| to go home. Do let me. l know moth
ing about any thing. l was sitting
quietly in my seat on the train when a
crazy woman yelled at me, and then
they all rushed for me, and some one
pulled a purse from my pocket, and
then this officer threw me about the
street as if l were sponge on a string.
Look at my new clothes, sir! And I'm
| sore all over"
"'Tis a 10y, sor. He was thryin' to
| escape. l max the charge agin' him,
sor'
Let me see that purse
Policeman X handed this corpus delictS
| to the magistrate. He opened it.
"Why, there's nothing in it!' he eX-
claimed, in disappointed tones.
But hold! In the innermost compart-
ment he found a roll of paper. He un-
folded it and read aloud as follows:
ITO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN: This young
man is not a thief, he's hog. He did not take
| the purse, he took seat and kept it, He was
| thus guilty of rudeness and lack of considera-
! tion toward frail womanlIind. l have punished
him for it as shall punish Others Hereafter
| trust that this experience will teach him that
| to true man every woman is q lady and en-
| titled to his chivalric service Place duG ddmesI
| "(Signed) THE AvENGER OF HER SEX"
"You are discharged, SIR" said the
magistrate to Arthur "But let this be
a warning to you" And his feet re-
sumed their extra-judicial position upon
| the desk.
From that day Arthur Chumpney was
changed man. He was scrupulously
polite to wan women with babies and
shawls he was obsequious to females
of gaunt visage and long hands He
seldom rides on elevated trains. When
he does, like travelled trunk, he uses a
strap. AS he says himself standing
is good enough for him every time
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