The Morning News

A Young Brother-in-Law Makes Things Lively for His Sister's Husband.

'Here he is, sergeant.'

'Is that the desperado?'

'That's the chap.'

The speaker, who addressed Sergt. Reilly at police headquarters, was Oliver Law, a watchman at one of the lumber mills. Outside of the railing stood Charles Collins, a 16-year-old white boy. Collins was the desperado.

'Yes, here I am,' broke in the boy as Law quit talking.

'What have you done?' the sergeant asked of the boy.

'Nothing in the world,' he replied, 'but what I ought to have done. This man here married my sister. He cursed her while I was in his house and I told him to stop it. He cursed me then and I threw a chair at him. He threw it back at me and we scuffled, and the panels of the door fell out.'

'You hear that now, don't you?' broke in Law. 'Well, the straight of it is, that the boy cursed me and flung the chair at me at the same time. I didn't want to hurt him, and if the sergeant hadn't 'er taken charge of me then, I'd 'er—well, Charlie, there's no telling where you'd 'er been now. As it was, sergeant, I didn't do nothing more than try to put him out of my house. He kicked every pane out of my door and I've got to stay at home all night to guard my family. If I fix up that door to-day, the rent agent will come down to-morrow morning for rent.'

The officer had the boy searched and locked up. Law seemed perfectly happy when the key was turned on the youngster. He is a very tall and muscular fellow, but he said that he was not contented until his brother-in-law was behind the bars. As soon as the affray between Law and his brother-in-law was ended Law reported the matter at police headquarters and asked the sergeant to send a man out after a 'desperado' who had threatened the peace of his family and the destruction of his house.