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Policeman Lee and the Formidables. 
The Manchester police had a run for 
their money Friday afternoon. The game 
was only five small boys, but there was 
some pretty good leg-stretching at that. 
The boys were juvenile knights errant, 
who had started out from South Boston 
to subdue the world. But when they 
reached Manchester they stopped a while 
—and that’s where their trouble began. 
The boys were John Dovle, 14 years 
old of 103 High street, Charlestown; 
John McDonald, 16, of 21 New street, 
and Richard Donovan, 14, of 106 New 
street, East Boston; Wilford Kelley, 13, 
of 10 North Grove street, Boston and 
John Tivins of 545 Beach street, Revere. 
They started out very proud in the 
joint-ownership of a broken pistol that 
looked as if it had had _pre-Revolution- 
ary service, aknife of questionable utility 
and a sling-shot. They felt a very 
formidable band as they marched out of 
Boston ona mission which none of them 
knew exactly, but which all agreed was 
to be very thrilling. With a lift here 
and a jog-trot there and many weary 
miles footed between, they arrived in 
Manchester in the afternoon and there 
things began to happen. 
Meeting a little girl on the tracks, they 
inquired the way to the ‘‘station.”’ 
‘* Come wiff me and I'll show you 
said the tot and started away atthe head 
of the troupe. 
**Youse is sure a nice little goil,’’ said 
the First of The Formidables to their 
infant guide, patting her on the shoulder 
and offering a half-stick of gum. 
‘*Sure and youse is,’” chimed in an- 
other, ‘‘youse is all to de mustard, Sally. 
Trot along and show us de way like a 
pilot.’’ 
Presently they came out into Central 
square. 
‘*'There’s the station,’’ said Sally, 
chewing her gum with great relish, and 
pointing across the street. 
‘Gee, fellows—we’s been betrayed— 
its the police station she’s brought us 
at—’’ gasped the Second Formidable. 
‘* We’s been stung’’ said the First. 
**We’s been outraged’ said a Third. 
‘* What’ ll we do wid de betraytrist?’’ 
demanded the First Formidable angrily. 
There was no time for answer! 
‘* Beat it—quick—der comes de cop,’’ 
whispered the Fifth Formidable. 
The band broke and ran just as the 
form of Policeman Jacob Lee em- 
erged from the station-house door. That 
was what aroused his suspicions that 
something was wrong. ‘Through back 
yards and over fences, he followed the 
band as they made for the railroad track 
and, in less time than it takes to tell The 
Formidables were scooting over the ties 
in the direction of Magnolia. At Beach 
street, one left the bunch and darted 
away toward Tappan street. He later 
ran through the back-yard of Policeman 
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The others took themselves on down 
the track as fast as possible and were 
slowly overhauled and gathered in by the 
illustrious ‘‘Jake.’’ When he had them 
all wellin hand, he deposited them in 
one of the Masconomo carriages and 
bundled them off to the police station. 
Before Chief Sullivan, they gave a vary- 
ing account of themselves and, after a 
night’s sleep at the station, were sent 
home next morning. 
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regard the ac- 
cident that befel one of Manchester’s 
boat-builders last Saturday night asa huge 
joke; but our good friend about whom 
this is written can’t detect the least thing 
funny in the incident. It seems that 
Louis O. Lations came up to the float at 
Masconomo pier about dusk Saturday 
night, to make a landing in his motor 
boat. The tide was low and this made 
the landing all the more hazardous. At 
that moment our good friend alluded to 
above walked down the pier, and he 
evinced his usual interest in everything 
connected with boats by watching Mr. 
Lations ““dock.’’ Now at low tide the 
pier at Masconomo Park is fully fifteen 
feet high. That is, from the top of the 
pier to the mud flats beneath, is fully two 
and a half fathom, to use the term of 
yachtsmen. Downthe pier our good 
friend walked, leisurely, hands in pock- 
ets, and dressed in his best apparel. To 
the edge of the pier he walked, as if to 
walk down the steps which were 
not there. In much less time than it 
takes to tell it, he covered the distance 
from the top of the pier to the mud _ flats 
beneath, a shower of mud being sent out 
to the surrounding space fora distance 
of ten feet. What happened after this 
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we will let go un-said, other than to sug- 
gest that after the mud was scooped off 
our high-jumper’s face and an opening 
was made to the mouth, “‘things’’? were 
said that would look interesting in print, 
—if we dared toprintthem. It wouldn’t 
have been so bad, if the tide had been 
in; but that mud! 
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A young man working at one of the 
estates on Smith’s Point has only his good 
luck to thank for his escape from serious 
and perhaps fatal injury last Saturday 
night. He had been attending the big 
party of the employes of the Spaulding 
estate at Beverly Farms and was return- 
ing home on the theatre train. Whether 
it was due to his over-zealousness in 
alighting from the train as it pulled into 
the Manchester station, or the fact that 
he had the chaperonage of two young 
ladies, is not known. It is known that 
he slipped off the steps before the train 
came to a stop and he fell off. Besides 
bruising himself, and soiling his “‘Sunday 
best,’’ he injured his feelings. Fortu- 
nately for him he rolled away from the 
wheels of the cars and not towards them. 
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