Honored A Brave Man

Pólice offioer Jobn H. McNally last week received the second honor which has come to him for a courageous performance of his duty in stopping a runaway team on Jackson boulevard sorne three weeks ago. It was a gold medal presented in the name of one of the big down-town stores whose employés had witnessed the act for which Officer McNally tecceived promotion to the rank of patrol sergeant. Officer McNally has been a member of the Chicago foice for six years and has shown nerve in more than one trying sitnation, but never more clearly than oö the morning of Sept. 8, when at the risk of his life he brought to a stop the team of frightened horses in tne crowded down-town part of Jackson boulevard. Offioers McNally and Martin Holberg, standing at the corner of State st. aud Jackson bonlevard, saw them coming and rnshed forward to intercept them. Officer Holberg missed his hold and was dashed to the ground; McNally oaught the bits and held on. He was jerked from his feet and svvept along by the maddened horses, bnt his weight told and half way down the block rnan and horses feil togetber. McNally was badly injured, and the three weeks whicb have passed have not seen him able to return to dnty, thoagh he is now well enongh to leave the honse. He is what his brotner offioers c%ll a "fine figure" of a man, tall and broad-shonldered aud with an arm like a blacksmith's. He was bom in the classic shades of Ann Arbor, Mich., on Feb. 18, 1867, and nntil be joined the pólice forcé was a painter by trade. The last six of his 30 years he has speut as a Chicago pólice oíScer. He joined the focre Sept. 2, 1891, and was stationed first on the West Side and later removed to tbe Central detail. On the books of the department his reoccrd is "clean," with no marks of misconduct orlaxness in dnty, and he has mote than once shown coolness aud courage. He is married aud Jives at No. 16 Troy st. Regarding his exploit Officer McNally is not coiumunicative. Tbe affair, to his ïnind, is condensed into the fact that the team was coming and he stopped it. There were attending circurustances in tbe nature of a cut in ihe head, an injured leg, and minor contusions, bat they were matters of personal interest. - Chicago Tribune, Sept. 26 The John H. McNally to ivhom the above item refers is well knowu to a large number of our citizens in Ann Albor and vicinity. He was born in Northfield and is a son of Owen McNally, wbo resides near Whitmore Lake.