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Mounted Policeman's Feat

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Offlcer Hancock, of the twenty-eighth pólice district, vas patroling his beat the other day on hls bicycle when he espied a crowd of small boys on a hugs . pile of new lumber. The alarm was given that a "cop" was coming, and the bojs made a general rush to get away. ïhe movement upset the lumber pile, and the long timbers slid down toward the center of the street. They made a natural gangwa t' up to the top, and Hancock, who had a jood galt on, rode his way clear to the lop. He landed in the soft clay. on the other s'.de, never loaing his seat. The affrightei boys scatterei in all direction, com pletely dumfounded by the pólice man's remarkable feat. ïhey keep nway from that section now, fór they say Hancock haa wings on his

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register