A Michigan Convict's Caper

James Burke, a convictsentfromSt. Joseph county, April 18, 1878, on a 10 years' seMtence, for burglary, played a cleyer game to get away recently, but it didn't, work. He was employed on the cooper contract, and squeezed hims elf into a box, got some of his fellow convicta to nail it up, and ábout 0 o'clock a team8ter wascalled&nd asked to take "that box of tools," which belonged to a convict and tne authorities wished to get it out of the way, to some place in the city. It was loaded on a wagon and driven outside the gate, when Deputy Hinckley thought it looked suspiclous, and, stopping the teamster, it was nnloaded and rolled back into the yard. They had not rolled it and tipped it end over end but a short distance, when itbioke open and the