The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-06

| His Temper-He Calls in his Neighbors
to Assist Him in Searching for His
FowIs-They are Found by Offenstein.
Who Calls the Police - officer Baines
Mistakes the Message and Gathers in
the Young Hawkshaw Instead of the
Thief-He Treats His Prisoner to Cigars,
1t was certain that Wichita con-
! tanned one man who was hot, as the
! expression goes. He was not warm
/ because the police had not done their
duty but because they had exceeded
! their authority He was willing 10
! fight anw man in Wichita who said the
! police would not do their duty when
/ called upon. The story runs as fol-
! lows:
/ On Tuesday night Deacon Givens, the
! shoemaker Of the West Side, had forty
/ nice plump hens taken from his hen
! house, as he said during the most
useful period Of their existence, as they
( had daily been engaged for the past
/ three weeks in laying ffteen-cent eggs.
/ Now the deacon is extremely fond Of
| hen fruit, and when he went 10 the
! hen house the next morning and found
/ con lost his temper and said naughty
1 things. He laid his afIiiction before his
| bosom friend, ex-COuncilman Hill, and
/ the two men Of the square and compass
| put their heads together TO turn heav-
| en- and earth but what the deacon
| should have his egg factory returned
TO him
The police were notified and told to
/ have the hoodlum wagon ready at a
4 moments notice as two of Sherman's
| old foragers were going out on the
trail and they would find the biddies
| If on the top of the earth.
About 6 O'Clock Bob Offenstein came
into Campbell's store out Of breath and
asked Miss Campbell 20 telephone the
! police station 10 bring the hoodlum
wagon 1t appears that Henry Forby
was az the other end of the wire and
| nearly jumped out of his shoes when the
| message arrived, and told Officer
Haines to get his pistols and go with
him to the West Side.
Soon they were in the wagon flying
10 the territory which llately threat
ened to seceed from the city limits,
and the wagon was not stopped until
they reached CampbelPs store from
| whence the message was sent.
Officer Haines went into the store for
the purpose of making inquiry and was
told that Ofenstein was the man.
''My God"' said FoITby, that man is
a prize fighter and wanted 10 challenge
Corbett. We viii have to watch out.
You go up the railroad track and I will
go around the road and We Will get
him, sure
The program was carried out to the
letter and when Haines came near the
hnIIEa o h1r fafy
was perfectly unconscious that he had
been picked out as the man 10 be ar
rested.
Halt. Throw up your hands," said
the officer as he brought his gun to
/ bear upon the young mans breast.
You are my prisoner. Come crawl in
the wagon
What have I done?" asked the
young man who stood with his eyes
fixed on the officers gun, the bore of
which he swears is larger than any
sewer pipe in the city.
''Oh, you don't know, but we do.
We are officers of the law, but we don't
take testimony out here on the prairie.
Judge Tucker is paid for that bust
ness"
There was nothing to do but for the
young man to crawl in the wagon, and
sit there perfectly meSmerized. No
boy with red top boots was ever hap
pier in his life than Forby as the waC-
on made its return TO the grocery store
Of CampbelTs.
please, Mr.. Officer Of the netropoli-
tan laws Of the city of Wichita, state
of Kansas, haven't you made a mis-
take. If l knows myself, and l think
l do, you have captured the prosecut-
ing witness and have let the criminal
60" said Ofenstein. gaining courage
as the officers had put up their guns.
and he was being guarded by one Of
Forby's largest grins.
There is no mistake. Charley Camp
bell said that Bob Ofenstein had stole
the chickens. and we are hot ever since
somebody without the love of God. or
the fear OF man in their hearts. en-
tered the heneTy of President Mccain
less and distracted ;herefrom his
chickens" said officer HaineS.
You would not mind stopping at the
store and making inquiry. You see
don't mind riding over with you, but I
have girl enga ged 10 so with ne 70
the show and she is liable TO get our
Of humOr,' said the young man.
'Oh, We will stop but il won't do you
any good said the officers.
4 think il might enable you 70 get
the right man, and this would he
much the best for You, I should think"
said Offenstein.
By this time they had reached the
store and imagine their surprise 10
find that the young man was the prose
cutting witness and not he criminal
Please excuse Us" aid the officers
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