The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-26
HAD THE BOY LICKED.
Detective Baseb as Umpire Mt "a
ScOuFging He Got the Worst of.

Detective Basch as Umpire mt %
scOurging He Got the Worst OF.
Railroad mishaps, accidents and run
offs are perhaps averted when there is
danger Of their happening, oftener than
/ they occur. The times when there are
narrow escapes from accidents are about
as frequent, If not more so, than the ac-
\ ciderts themselves, and there are many
! instances where extreme caution on the
4 part Of engineers has saved much prop
| erty and perhaps loss Of life.
81. Basch. the well known detective Of
the Central railroad. tells a good story of
! an accident that didn't happen, and
though he Unraveled the little mystery
surrounding it, it seems he got the worst
Of 1t in the end.
A report came to headquarters that
an attempt had been made to wreck a
pass niger train some fifteen or twenty
miles from the city. Some one had placed
a lot of crossties on the track but as
1t happened, they were not in cut or
around a curve. The engineer saw them
in plenty CT time to avoid running off the
track aud ditching his train. The mat
ter was re ported in detail, and the only
clew that could be obtained to the mys-
FERROUS app earance of the ties on the
low cur dos, I1een by the fireman, sneaking
away through the bushes not far from the
track. This did not seem to be much of
any clew at all, but the detective deter
mined to see what there was in il.
He went to the pOirt on the road where
the ties had been found, and after a
while discovered a country house at which
he called.
Have you got any dogs here?" he
asked.
1t was a woman who came to the door,
and she told him b. might find two or
three in the back yard. on going out there
ne found just such a little, yellow cur as
had been described.
That's the dog I m looking for he
said, land now Wher e's the man he fol-
lows?"
He was told that III dog belonged to a
little negro boy who stayed around the
place, and after a little searching, the
10y was found De- sective Basch took
h i'm off down the roa saying he wanted
h hn. and the youthful negro was fright
elted almost out of his wits.
Look here, you litstle scoundrel," he
sa "a, what did you put those crossties
on the track out ther for?"
I he boy was almost 90 frightened to re-
ply, but finally admitte he did 1t because
he wanted TO see the train run off, very
ean,sid about 1t to ~ the least. He
was too young to prose cute as a criminal,
father, whom he mad punish him Sc
verelV v. The father ii ed the boy to a
tree, and while he laid it on with hick-
DRY sN Vitch, the detective sat calmly by on
a log IN the woods as mpire. He didn't
decide for some few minutes that the
boy ha, enough, and when he did, he was
firmly Of the opinion ths the boy would
not soon again try to m AXE train run
off just for the fun of the thing.
A few days after the de tective returned
to Savannah, he was eng aged in another
piece of detective work which he did
not relish much He was trying to figure
on how m any red bugs originally got upon
his person while he was sitting on that
log There was no doubt about their 10
cation, and the conclusions he reached
were quite complimentary to the repro
ductive powers of that little insect.