Mike's Mistake

Wheu Uuitt.au, tbe president ial assassin, lectured ou the Savior ïu this city, he was wautcil at Anu Arbor Cor jumping B board billat the Leonard house. Col. Burleigh, wbo was toardlDg at the Leöuard house at the time, knew of the circdtrtstUnce, and happcned lo come to Detroit on the forcnooii of tlie day Guiteau leetured here. Process had beeu issued lor the swindler's arrest, and a dispateh sint to Detective Stadier by Fkiaing. All i was shown to Burleigb, whö saw au opportunity to joke the sheriil, and had no sooner thougüt of it thao he set about it. About 3 o'elock he telegraphed Fleming: "Your man is on the Grand Rtlpida express disguised, making tot Dbioago. This he did not sign, and Fieming tlunking Ütadler bad forgotten to sign lus name, rushed tothe depot witb scveral dupulies and made the conductor üold the train while he scrutiuized every male passenger with an Argus eye. There weie sevural gentlemen aboard with bushy beanls and slouch bats, aud Fleming, iiisihti.il Qpon making tbem gei up, vvhen lie pulled their beards to see whetber Ihey were false, and in olber ways angeicd Uiu pas sengers. After detaining tbc Iruin some áO minutes aud lookiug under the cari, etc., be was coiivinced ötadler had been mistaken, and allowed the conductor i procted Burleigu had goue liome on tüc same train, uud watched Fleming uud his witu iuexpressible raerrimeut. A.flor the train bad goue on lic walked up towu wilh the sheriff, and rétnarked: "Will, Mike. you (tidu't findyour man, did youV" Flemiiig BUbséquently declared Chat ihis remark, a: onci: couvinced hiin hu hád been hoaxud, and knowing Burleigh't pro penalty for practical joking clmiged Hui) with H, sayiuir: "I thought H inighly queer Stadlurdidn't say how Guiteau was disguised, uud wasdatrtning hiui lor big carelcssni-ss ; but ï'II gel even wilh you." Jiurleigu taughoO; but. ilio joke was soon afterwiird turncd on liim. He liul pair of very fino oíd doding plMota wbich one tl&y disappcarod froni hisollicc - stolen, the colonel boliuved - ud li uotified sherifE Fleming of the tüeft. Ii a few days the ofUcer said he could ge the pisiols for 125, wliich hu needed t piy a man who elaiined to know wlier they were. liurleigh tumbled, fotke out the ducats, and in a few days uciive his pistola, lt is needless to suy that n arrests were made; the pistols liad bee "stolen" by a well known lawyir, wil had goiif inlo Ilio joke with Fiemirig, an the !jl25 was "blown out" by thein at a diuner to which BUifelgh was iuvited