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Why should a man rob himself?
There are various reasons.
When a person gets short In his ac
counts, he is now and then caught
combining the dual role of robber and
victim. Cashier Gould of Bellwood is
suspected of cracking his own safe;
which piece of work got the public eye
to glaring In his direction. In Lincoln
the event has happened so often that it
occasions little comment in police cir
cles. Dissipation and shortages, misfort
une and 111 luck, are some of the
causes. But there are some cases where
the motive of the plotters is never as
certained. Not long ago Detective Malone and
Chief of Police Hoagland drove out
through the darkness to a spot in the
country two miles east of Lincoln. A
man bad been held up. His loss was
placed at 50. An hour before the al
leged robbery had taken place.
There were no traces of bandits, not
a possible clue. In the hopes of get
ting an Idea the man was asked to re
cite his adventure again.
He narrated the details with mechan
ical regularity. While riding along In
his road wagon he had been seized
' from behind and dragged to the
ground. Some one turned the horse
about. A masked man went through
his pockets. But the second time the
story was told the officers told him to
go home and come to town early the
next day. They did likewise. Did they
exhaust themselves looking for a rob
ber or gang of wicked bandits? Not
they.
Instead the deal was concluded in
such a prosaic manner that Its recital
Is liable to be monotonous. The next
day the man had a heart to heart talk
with the powers. After some weak
and vain prevarication he admitted
that he had blown considerable money
with the boys and gambled away some
more. -Accordingly he left- for-home
with a? roll belonging to his wife sadly
diminished. There were tears yes
tears from a great big six-foot man
expostulations and a whole brand new
grist of resolutions which have been
well kept. So this tale makes its ap
pearance at this late day and for ob
vious purposes the immaterial details
have been very slightly twisted, both
to protect the reformed man and to
avoid casting aspersions on the six
other fellows who tried the same trick
within a few weeks and failed.
Experience is a good schoolmaster
but it takes the method considerable
time to-percolate.
Several months ago a gentleman
from Nelson named' Chapman deliber
ately told -the authorities that he had
been robbed, hoping that the officers
would pounce-on the accused and make
them "divvy" rather than have trouble.
He had everything to gain and noth
ing much to lose. He got wobbly at' the
critical moment and admitted that he
had spun a yarn after the manner of
Kipling. The motive was supplied by
the authorities.
When you lend money to a relative
you run a double risk, declare some
people. This maxim deliberately and
rigorously believed caused one of the
heaviest auto-robberies in the annals
of Lincoln hold up history.
A brother-in-law wanted to borrow
the earnings of years. The capitalist
did' not want to lend it, neither did he
want to create minced feelings in the
family circle by a refusal, no matter
how diplomatic. So he was held up.
The town reverberated with the start
ling news.
Now when a knife penetrates a gar
ment fairly and squarely it generally
keeps on going. It doesn't stop ab
ruptly at the point of contact with the
flesh. Hence the undoing of the theory
of two elaborately accoutred burglars.
But the fellow got out of making the
loan.
And so the modern detective has to
steer clear of the auto-hold up for it
Is so hard to find the bandli and get
any reward.
IN AND ABOUT NEBRASKA.
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says, and be has found It a very pleas
ant pastime. Even his hogs have
caught the spirit of the sport and the
other day one dug Into the hole of a
rat until he caught two and devoured
them. Not only is It fun to pick them
off with a rifle, but it is rich to release
them from the trap and watch the ter
rier pursue and vanquish them.
Around the world on foot will go
four West Point, Neb., young men,
starting on their long Journey on May
1. All the natives will watch them off
and give them a banquet and plenty of
good cheer before the hour of depart
ure. The young men are Amandus J.
Krause, Edward Clancy, George P.
Meier and Will Gefeke. They will take
the direction to San Francisco and
with them will be taken a burro to
carry their baggage and provisions.
Odd work will.be done wherever it can
be found, enough to help them on to
the next stopping place. Thus they
will travel over the mountains and
valleys until they reach the big coast
city. There they will sell the donkey
and do their best to ship on the same
vessel, working their way at whatever
may be done. At Manila they will
visit with the soldier boys from Ne
braska, if any be found, and then go
on to Hong Hong. It may take them
several years to complete the circuit,
but they don't care. No wager Is con
nected with the enterprise. The only
object Is to see how big the world Is
and what Is going on In the parts out
of sight of West Point, Neb.
It doesn't often happen that a hold
up demand the use of the public tele
phone and nothing more. This hap
pened the other day at Hamburg, not
far from Nebraska City. Of course
there was no gun play In It, but there
was plenty of mouth play. A tough from
Nebraska City In the company of some
questionable women went to the ex
change and demanded of Mr. Kinney,
the manager, the privilege of using the
phone to call up a friend in Nebraska
City. Rightfully the demand was de
nied. It brought forth a tirade of
abuse and Mr. Kinney at once tele
poned for the marshal. The tough
tried to get away, but he continued to
profane the name of the telephone man
as he went down the street and the
marshal Identified him by bis language.
A fine of 5 was the penalty.
A well that weeps and walls and
blows Is situated on the farm of Henry
Clapp, a few miles southeast of Alvo.
It does things by contraries, to the
bewilderment of the oracles of the
neighborhood. Just before a storm
bursts over the country thereubouts It
begtns to puff and a bucketful of water
poured Into It will Issue at once In
spray. It Is the coolest kind of a
breeze. In pleasant weather It moans
and takes on like a weeping child. In
the coldest weather It does not freeze
but on moderately wintry days It
freezes. Its depth Is seventy feet.
Pauses in the music at Mrs. Sclat
ersby's dinner fag ends of conversa
tion: "The decadents are simply the peo
ple who refuse to write twaddle for
the magazines."
"The way to make a name in the
world Is to own a soap factory and
ape William Morris on the side."
"I can tell when It is spring by
watching the haberdashers windows.
It Is so much nicer to watch shirts and
ties blooming than flowers and those
smelly things."
"The follies of a married man should
be dealt with leniently: they ore most
ly of his wife's inspiration." Prom
The Imitator.
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