Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — The Bomb Man. [ARTICLE]

The Bomb Man.

Lecoq the detective ordered a fourth egg nogg. “Bomb J«en are the pest of Russia,” he said. “As we have green goods men here, so they have bomb men there. “You, for Instance, are a farmer, Stepan Stepanovltch. You come to Petersburg to see the sights, and suddenly a man thrusts his hands in your pocket and says: “ 'Cursed aristocrat I I have placed a bomb In your trousers. Move a muscle and it will go off.’ \"You stand perfectly still. You are half dead with fright After ten minutes or so, though, you collect enough courage to ask a passer-by if he will please remove very carefully the bomb placed In your pocket by an Anarchist, and the passer-by draws forth gingerly a brick.” Lecoq ordered a fifth egg nogg. “A brick." he repeated., "But Stepan Stepanovltch's purse, containing 17 roubles and 49 kopecks, Is quite gone.” Whan a politician approaches you, and you lie to him, you may not think he, knows It but he nearly always does.