The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-17

| THE POLICEMAN, WITH A YELL OF TER
RoR, DISAPPEARED.
ing and increasing the distance be-
| tween us.
Zip! Zip! two bullets whizzed past
my ear. Thanks to the darkness was
unharmed, and, at last, unpursued.
Soon ! was on the main street of the
village and before the police station, in
which l rushed dressed in gymnasium
garb without hat, and my loosened
hair flying in all directions. l startled
the doing old watchman so that he
wakened in jiffy, and after managed
to identify myself and get sufficient
breath to tell my tale and convince him
it was not dream, he rung the signal
bell and four big constables came in.
In hurry wagon was obtained and
in it we jumped and drove back to our
place as fast as the whip could urge the
| horses.
When we got there the house seemed
darker and stiller than when l left
When the brave policemen lighted
their lanterns, and with huge clubs and
| pistols drawn marched, with a needless
amount of noise, thought, to the front
door, where they stood, each, out of po-
liteness. perhaps, wishing the other to
enter first, while l, you may be sure,
kept in the center of the group.
Finally, hearing nothing, we all went
into the dining-room together. The
safe stood there unopened and only a
lot of burned matches on the floor
around the unbolted and unrecogniZa-
|
| lars existence.
While we considered what to do first,
Michael stuck his scared white face,
with mass of red hair standing on end,
through the hall door and withdrew it
Just in time to save it from the descend
ing club of the nearest policeman. At
the same instant the farthest police
man, more inquisitive than the rest,
stepped on the trap and with a yell of
terror, disappeared.
"Michael, bring the ladder! Quick"
I cried and to the horror-striclSen con-
stables: Raise the trap-he's not
hurt-only down with the robbers in
the molasses."
Before thcy recovered enough to ask
questions Michael dragged in the lad
ders and prying open the trap and
fastening it upright the ladder was let
down ana by a lanterns light we got
on our knees and gaZed below.
Then | drew back as something in
the form of head emerged from the
hole, followed by "A shapeless and
glistening body. | laughed in spite OF
my efforts to be solemn, and the other
constables had to join me.
Hair, whiskcrs, nose, eyes, hands
every bit of the forlorn and frightened
fellow--were all one undistinguish-
able mass of the sticky, yellow liquid,
: trickling and streaming from all over
him. Getting water, we cleared his
eyes and mouth and then prepared fol
the serious and more dangerous work
at hand.
We lowered fresh lantern by q
string and the boldest one of us-which
wasn't stretched his neck carefully
down the trap, and seeing nothing
loudly called ON the burglars to sur
render.
No answer came. Then he fired a
{ pistol shot in aiming at the far corner
The result made all of us jump. Don't
shoot, boss We give up" sounded
from the vault.
Come out then, one at time, mind
ye," replied our leader, ''and hold up
your hands for the bracel cts, when ye
do" 'All right, boss" we heard, and
then three molasses smeared heads and
bodies-eXact images of our exploring
constable-followed each other out
and after being handcuffed were set in
row on the sofa.
''Be jabbersm grinned Michael, "but
yez are a shwate lot. Bedad, now whir
yez git pulled yez'll make foine mol,
lasscs candy, an yezll go to the jug
too, GOV coorse-too shtuck oop to no
tice any wun, amt yez?"
But the poor creatures never made
answer, or if they did their words, no
doubt, stuck literally in their throats.
The rest is soon told: l got the five
thousand dollars reward, out of which
| paid expenses and the damage done to
carpets and furniture.
My name, fame and picture (Which
looked as if |, too, had been in the mo.
lasses) were printed in the newspaper
and was the heroine of the day.
But not for ten times the money got
would ] be detective again, for many
a night since have shrieled in terror
from dreaming 1t over.
forgot to mention that the third
burglar was the one who had chased
me and then ,oUurned to find and join
} his trapped companions-''in the soup,
as the boys would say n. C. Dodge, in
GOodall's Sun,