Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
WERE SOON DETECTED.
One was Arrested and Held by
a Nebraska Sheriff.
MADE A DASH FOR LIBERTY
Just After the Candidates Train Had
Pulled Out of IA Nebraska Town the
Thief Broke Away from HIS CaptOr
and Escaped.

Beatrice, Neb,, Aug. 25.-an excit-
ing incident mari;ed Mr.. Bryan's first
stop in his own state yesterday, upon
his return from the Topeka notitica-
tion meeting. This incident was the
detection of pickpocket in the act
i've pursuit of his avocation by Mr.
Bryan, lively chase through the
cars for the thief and his capture ami
subsequent escape. The incident oc-
Cured at the village of Barneston,
on the Union Pacific railroad. A
dense crowd had gathered to bid Mr..
Bryan welcome. AS the train slowed
up Mr.. Bryan appeared on the plat
form of the last car. He was shaking
hands with the people when there
| was a suspicious movement in the
center of the assemblage.
Look out for those picltpockcts,'
| shouted the democratic leader, re-
mcmbering their movements from his
experiences with this class four years
ago. He had not pointed out any
| particular person. but three or four
| men started Immediately to move
| rapidlv through the crowd. The
movement excited the attention Of
people in the crowd and also those on
|
| They, however, devoted their especial
attention to one Individual, a tall
Young man. who easily diStanced his
! pursuers. He jumped upon the tram,
but as he did so he fell into the arms
of Sheriff Waddngton.
The man protested his innocence
but the sheriff took him into custody
and as the train pulled out he walked
him into the car Immediately forward.
The train was getting under fair
headway when the prisoner, with ths
aIertness of a wild deer, turned and.
rushing by his custodian, dashed dow"
| the crowded aisle of the car, through
the doorway and upon the car plat
form. Without an instant'a heslta-
ton he jumped. alighted upon his
feet and was Off with the swiftness
of a trained athlete.
BEFORE the train could be stopped
the culprit was seen running SWl1tiy
across a plowed field fully half a mile
distant. lie soon disappeared IL
patch of high Indian corn. ihe oc-
| currence engaged the attention OF an
tbe passcnoers and the fact was
| brought out that there was number
of the men on the train who had got
| at ODtkI anu NiicN' ~ ''''''
aroused the suspicion Of the tram
officials. There had been some 1hettS
in the crowd at Topeka, newspaper
man in Mr. Bryan's party having been
among the victims. This fact was
connected with the presence OF the
men and they were under suspicion
before the Barnest'n incident oc-
| Cured.
The fact was also remembered that
when the train had stopped ut
Barneston the men under suspicion
had Jumped from the train TO mlhgle
with the crowd, yelling loudly Tor
BRYAN as they went. When the tram
slowed up a few miles further on, be-
fore crossing bridge another mem
ber of the suspected party jumped on
the train and disappeared in a grove.
When the train reached Beatrice the
members of the party under Suspicion
were detained. There eight or ten
men thus held and they made no re-
sistance.
Mr.. BRYAN arrived at Beatrice from
Manhattan in the afternoon and al
forwards delivered Il speech to the
people of this vicinity. lie was greet
ed by considerable gatherings upon
his Journey. At Randolph he made
five-minute speech in which he COM
pared the republican party to an as
sociation of athletes trained to turn
somersar in concert whenever the
leaders say Hop.