A Criminal Brought to Justice.

Lake County Press, Issue 2115, 26 April 1906, Page 2

A Criminal Brought to Justice.

! A l.ondon cabdriver was one night, i>i• I ween eleven ami (waive o’clock. : Come down (fray's Jmi llouti, keep- ; ing his eyes open for a fare, when a man rushed out of one of the side 1 streets, hat.lc.ss, and almost breath- i less with running. .T tun ping into the cab, he saiti. " Drive away sharp, 1 quick as you can go, anywhere, Ptve ! pmuids tl yon drive fast The offer was not to ho despised, and whippot" up Ins horse he set off. keeping i into the cab he saw his fare eronehine ilim n, biding himself, as it were, 1 at the bottom of the. vehicle, and 1 apparent,l\ almost faint wit it fear : : end pulling two and two together ' he became convinced that (he man was (lying front t lie police. What 1 laid he been up to There are some 1 eases where it is not only ''against 1 one's grain " to assist a man to es- 1 cape, but also very dangerous to do * so. Thinking' ail this over, the 1 cabby laid his plan. Twisting and ( turning lie drove back to the street 1 from which his fare, had issued and ' there before a house he saw a crowd *' and the police bringing a man along 1 on a stretcher. Pabirv stopped his :l cab right opposite the spot . Alarm- 1 ed by the stoppage, (he man inside 1 sprang to lii.s feet, looked out, and I muttered a shriek of horror. The next moment he was in the hands of * iti>’ police, lb' bait been committing I 1 a roblKuw and had slabbed the man ' who had fried to arrest him. e The Ut ar.iluin Parliament has offer- hj ed a prize of T400,000 for the dis- c eovery of a certain method of stamp- b ing out consumption. w it Ihe soldier ant of Australia builds ?l huge neats and overpowers small 0 snakes. Yet it is vanquished by a hj email black ant a third as large, the 1 battles often lasting fur months. t,