An Attempt At Hold-up

AN ATTEMPT AT HOLD-UP

Made on a Prominent Citizen Sunday Morning.

HE WAS GOING HOME

Two Tramps Demanded His Money But He Ran and Escaped.

A case of genuine attempt at hold-up occurred about six o'clock Sunday morning just as a prominent citizen was approaching his home near the Michigan Central depot.

Daylight had not yet broke forth when a couple of hoboes stopped him and demanded his money. The prominent citizen had no weapon to defend himself, but he had a pair of legs on him that are as fleet as those of Half  Back McLean and, making a pretty dodge, he made a run for a touch down at his home.

The hoboes infest the neighborhood of the railroads and are nervy in the extreme. Marshal Gerstner says he has orders from the prosecuting attorney not to arrest them as long as  they do not come up town as the forthcoming addition to the jail would not be large enough to accomcdate all who could be thrown in on a charge of vagrancy.

The matter was not reported to the police until this morning, and of course the tramps had got out of town by that time.