Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-10-25
THE HooDlUM GANG.
THEIR LATEST VERY 0FUNNYv
CARVINGS.

"""ty u O'ner Equally HeinOUs
Ofrrnses-A Fair but Final Warning.
No one objects to boys having all
the fun that they can get out of life,
so long as they do not make nuisance
OF themselves, aud do not 60 beyond
bonds. But some boys have recently
been guilty of actions which have
given rise to so much well>founded
complaint that the TINES feels com.
PEELED to direct public. attention to
the matter, in the hope that harsher
repressive measures will thus be
rendered unnecessary.
About two weeks ago wire was
stretched across Third avenue, be-
tween the dwellings of E H. Hendrick
and George Bronaugh. A young
equestrienne happened along. 1t was
just dark, and she was fastening
home. Her horse was caught by tho
wire, he stumbled and luneed to the
ground, and the young lady was
thrown. She luckily escaped unhur..
with the exception of . few bruises.
Had she been killed or seriously in.
jured land it is q wonder she was no,)
the matter would have been invest.
gated, the villains who stretched the
wire found, and they would undoubt.
eddy have ended their life on the
gallows or in the State Pen,tentiary
A couple Of days later Frank Peed,
county assessor, while walking home,
was thrown to the ground by another
telephone wire stretched across tho
sidewalk, and fastened to ono Of the
shade trees on the outside aud to the
fence ON the inside of the walk, in
front of w. T. Riley's residence. Mr..
Peed sustained q fracture Of the wrist,
a sprain Of the arm, severe bruises
about the body, and cuts and scratches
over the face and head. He has not
got over the effects Of the mishap, and
may not 70, some time. As there
had been a Democratic meeting that
night poor Frank Peed has since had
insult added to injury by being
charged With having been at least
"half shot" on the occasion referred
to.
A few nights later a wire was
stretched in the same way in front OF
Selden B. Kingsbury's residence. Mr..
and Mrs. Earheart came along. Both
fell, and were badly hurt, though nc
bones were broken.
This stringing Of wires has been
going on for months, as the first DOM.
plant must have reached the TINES
as long ago as last June.
Something that happened last nigh
capped the climax. A family wen. t
Boise on the excursion, leaving ,
l4year.old daughter in charge OF tn
family dwelling. She asked fou
young girls to stop with her.
From about s o'clock . gang o
eight or ten boys, most of whom ar
known and whose names were SUP
piled to the TIMES, had been ringing
tho door-bell, knocking on windows
breaking glass on the porch, throwing
stones against the dsor, daubing them
selves and clothes in the fresh pain
applied on the house that day, an
throwing clods OF mud against tn
house. They also propped the gat
open, assembled to the roof on tn
painters ladder, uttered cat-calls, an
made themselves as obnoxious as the
possibly could.
The young girls in the besiege
house, almost paralyz ed with fear, di
not dare run out; but they turned o,
the lights the curtains being dow
. shut the blinds, and scarcely moved
breathed. Finally about 9 o'cloe
, two OF the young girls had to {
/ home. The five girls left the hou
, to accompany two of their numb
home. As they came out some of q
lads ran after them, pulled them bs'
!, by their hair ribbons, tried to las
| them with their handkerchiefs, a,
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