The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-20
FOILED!
Seth DsWherTy, our IiOn-hsaTted
town constable didn't kGtCh
a chirkpn fhnpf INF he hat
Ched something worse and he
wont soon forget It either.

Seth Dewberry, our lion hearted town
constable, who has faced death in prob
ABLY more different varieties than any
other person in Bingville, and has went
through many hairbreadth excapes from
death. and is living to tell the tale, had
an experience last Thursday night which
made his hair stand on end, brave man
though he is.
Lem Brown and Mrs. Brown went to
bed Thursday night about 7 80 p. m.
as usual. Lem, he went FIRST, being as
he got so sleepy trying to read he
couldn't scarcely hold his head up, so
he put the cat out, locked all the doors,
then lit candle and went up stairs 10
bed. Mrs. Brown, she had to mix
bread first, but she followed Lem soon
afterwards, and it was not long before
both of EN- was sound TO sleep.
Some time during the night Mrs.
Brown was woke up, for some reason
or other. she don't know exactly what,
and she heard the chickens in the hen
house cac<ling, and give Lem a jab
with her elbow. Lem, he woke up with
a start and wanted TO know what the
matter was, and Mrs. Brown whispered
to him that she thort there was chicken
thieves in the henhouse.
Lem, he bounced outen bed and into
! his pants, which in his hurry he pulled
on wrong side front, and got on his
boots and his fur coat and cap and went
down stairs and snuk out the back door,
where he waited a minute TO listen.
The hens was still cackling, so Lem, he
cut across back lots to the residence OF
Constable Dewberry and pounded on
the door until Seth raised a winder up
stairs and desired to know what the
thunderashion anybuddy wanted of him
that time of night.
/ Lem told Seth TO come quick. being
as there was chicken thieves in his hen
house and Seth asked Lem If he didn't
think il would be a good cal better to
wait until morning, so as they could seq
their tracks better. Lem then asked
Seth il he was afeared TO do his duty
and Seth said he would show Len
whether he was afeared or not. so he
clapoed down the winder and dressed ir
a hurry and presently come outen th'
house with two pistols, one in each
hand.
On the way back to LENS. Seth gath
cred I'D Brad Hinsley. Peter Hoskins
Lem Ouigley and Dave White, our &C
commodating undertaken and made en-
ali deputy constables, then this possl
Of desprit men approached the her
house and surrounded It. The chickens
were still disturbed and nobuddy hat
any doubt but what the thief or thieve
: were Inside. Seth he whispered to Dav,
White to open the hen house door ant
90 in and chase out the thief and Il
/ would shoot him full of holes, as h
J emerged from the hen house, but Dav
. sort of hung back Seth says, Il hav
went and honored you by making you
! deputy and now want you TO go wher
a I tell you," but Dave he suggested tina
4 he should take the pistols and shoot tn
J. thief If Seth would be so kind as T.
9 step In the hen house and rout him ou'
s hut Seth said II there was any shootin
c 10 be did, he would do Il hisself
n After good cal Of argument Set
a finally snuk up and throwed open tn
e hen house door, then jumped sroan
n the corner of the hen house. The re-
III OF the possy stood back about ic
0 wards or more and waited. All va
client Inside the hsn house which WI