The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-25

Tim. You didn't think there was
man around the place who has shot
seven different robbers in his time and
cut down no end Of thieves in their
proud days You may be a desperate
man, but I'll have you know that Tim.
othy O'Grady is desperater"
Gould we have made a installer
asked Miss Judith as she caught the
prisoners tones He sounds like a
gentleman"
%eYer mistake, young lady" re-
piled the gardener as he marched to
and fro before the door It's the gen.
tlemanly Ra1les we've got inside. and
it's Rallies who'll stay there till the
boy can find and bring Constable Drew
and forty other men to take him out
and send him to prison for life. Away
with you. Teddy. | knew that some
thing was going TO happen when got
up this morning feeling like Il hero"
Judith and the servant girls with
drew, and the boy FASTENED in search
of help. while the gardener paced up
and down and halted ut intervals TO
assure the prisoner that the slightest
move to regain his liberty would re-
suit IN sudden death. For time
Rallies seemed DESTROYS of maintain
ing conversation and forcing ex-
plantations. but he was discouraged so
often and with such bloodthirstness
that he finally gave 1t mp.
n La ht- q
telephone. two bicyclists and an auto.
Teddy managed To get into communi-
cation with Constable Drew At .
o'clock that official appeared, accom-
panied by crowd of men and boys
and dogs to the number OF forty. Most
of the men were armed, the dogs ready
to bite and the boys to yell. Miss Ju-
dith stood under tree and told her
story, and when 1t was finished the
constable looked about on the crowd
and said:
IF this hain't clew then my ten
years as Il constable goes for nothing,
want YOU all To take notice that 1t
was my stopping here and giving the
gal p'interS that has resulted in the
capture of the desperatest and das-
hardest criminal in the annals Of
crime
Then the crowd moved on the ga
rage. Raf'ips had been very quiet for
the last half hour. There WAS a ten
minute discussion as to whether holes
should he cut in the door and the pris-
oner shot down without mercy or
whether he should he given chance
to surrender an ! go to state prison for
life. 1t WAS the pleading of Miss Ju.
dith that decided the constable in ia
yor of the latter course.
The question had Just been decided
when Widow Long. her son and two
sisters arrived from the city. and Fred
proceeded to take charge. Under his
directions. with the constable a good
second and the gardener a shaky third,
the force was formed in Il crescent
and the garage door thrown open.
Resistance to the law means DEATH
shouted the leader as he stepped back
and made ready with his shotgun.
There was no resistance Out from
the sweat box in which he had been
imprisoned for hours came n demure
and perspiring young man of eight
and twenty. After one long look ut
him Fred Lang threw up his hands
and gasped out:
Hoy smoke. but It's Paul Stevens!'
Paul stevens the wealthy young
bachelor and cmbman. He had come
down to look over the Agnew place.
which was for sale, and the deaf old
Mr. Jones had directed him wrongly.
OF course the constable and his crowd
departed; of course Paul was introduce
ed all around; Of course he stayed to
dinner.
The Agnpw villa was not bought I'M
til a year later though the prisoner
carried an option on it. He wanted to
be sure Of a certain condition before
buying and that was announced sew
eral weeks since his engagement to
Judith Lang
The garage now being erected on the
place will have telephone communica-
tiOn with the house. so that any one
suddenly and illegally and unlawfully
imprisoned therein may use the wire
to vouch for his identity and respecta-
bility