The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-12-20
CHILDREN ROE POST OFFICES.

Post Office Inspector in Charge
Dice relates a most remarkable
case occurring in his department
in west Texas recently.
The post Office at Hondo Can
Yon, Bandera county. was one
morning found broken open and
looted Of all its contents. The
post Office is here a rather a prim-
tive affair, conducted in Il small
room, and having but little work
to perform.
From the bold character of the
burglary, however, it was conclud-
ed by the official that desperate
lot of rogues were operating in the
neighborhood, and that the COM
munity should hunt them down at
all pains. Accordingly a lot Of
blood hounds retained for such
work were put on the trail Of the
parties vino had committed the
robbery, and posse Of citizens
followed in hot pursuit. Before
the dogs had proceeded far, how
ever. they were given no end of
trouble IN keeping the trail, losing
it at every creek, and finding it
again only after the most persist
ent search. Similarly, they often
lost it at trees, and the party in
each case concluded that they had
freed thair game, only to find, af-
ter the most painstaking search,
that the pursued were not in the
tree, but had gone on, the dogs
/ finding the trail at the base of an
other tree whose boughs We're in
reach Of those of the tree to which
the dogs had followed the trail.
This convinced the searching par
ty that they were in pursuit of
most desperate and experienced
criminals, and deepened their Gu
riosity and eagerneGs.
Finally the dogs came to the
mouth Of a cave IN the canyon,
and it was evident to the party
that they had at last found their
game, and that there was possibly
a fierce and unrelenting fight on
hand. Instead of the expected
bloodthirsty criminals, however, a
little boy and girl, aged Is and IA
respectively, brother and sister,
belonging to family who dwelt
in the community, made their APP
pearance at the mouth OF the cave,
the boy with a Winchester rifle in
his hands, who proposed capitula,
ton. The party capitulated.
In fact, they were in sucn amaz :
ment that for while they We're
unable to figure the case out ana
connect the little ones with the
robbery They explained, howev-
er, that they had done the deed
and the methods they had taken
to elude pursuit Of the blood
. hounds, taking to the creeks and
then again climbing trees and let
ting themselves down the ,boughs,
and sometimes climbing to the
mex trees, when the limbs per-
mitted, to make the era of search
as big as possible. They had TAX
en- away a wallet and stored it with
provisions.
1t was apparent that the little
ones had been reading class Of
fiction not conducive to the cult.
, walton Of the right standard of liv.
ing, and that the same had built
! up strong ideas in their young
minds. They had broken oper
t the post Office with an ak, rifled il
of its postage stamps, which were
, found in their possession, anC
t packed away on a thrilling journey
r of escape. The little ones were
, released on the recommendation o
: the district attorney by reason o
9 their tender age, and their parents
( were given an opportunity to re
S fleet over the power of printed
words.
OF the many curious cases tina
: come under the attention of a chic