Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1912 — Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Budding Bandit is Nipped in the Bud

NEW YORK.—“Nipped in the Bud, or Nothing Doing for Dickey Boy,” is the next novel to which will be drawn the attention of Richard Boy, a wouldbe bandit Dickie Boy, who is five feet three and fifteen years old, armed himself with two big guns, a dungshot seventeen dime novels, a Bible and a map of Arizona and started for they wild and woolly west to shoot down Indians and shoot up saloons. Be did not even get a good start, for he was grabbed by just an ordinary copper and “trun into the cooler.” He did not even have the satisfaction of being stuck up by a cowboy sheriff and getting a run for his money and a squareahow. - The budding frontiersman started the ball rolling the other afternoon by running amuck in his home at 69 West Ninety-third street He did not shoot out any lights, but Jie scared the life of his mother and two younger brothers and sisters. The terror of the West side declared he’d shoot ’em all up, and they got into dosete and under beds while he strutted la in truly western splendor, rattling with artillery as he walked. “TerriWe Tito

of Tonopah,” or the “Twining Twins of Tucson” had nothing on hito. Policeman Fried was on fixed post when a man came algng and told him about the miniature arsenal. It did not seare the policeman a bit. He sauntered over to the hallway and bore down on the embryonic western, terror- Without pulling a gun on hito and telling him to throw up his hands he grabbed him by the scruff of the node, gave him an old-fashioned chmt and said : - “Sonny, what have you got in your pockets?” With an awful scowl the boy bandit faded his captor. The. officer took him upstairs where the family was found In a condition of terror. Fried then, took, the pocket edition of Jesse James to the West side police station. - The two guns were fully loaded. The slungshot was one of the toughest looking weapons the police had -ever seen. It was made up of nails and bits of ated and covered with leather, with a leathern thong attached to IJt for the wrist "Tie dime novels were wonders of literary art. They ran all the way from “Disbond Dick’s Lest Dive” to “Whanged Into the Willies” and “Scarlet Sam’s Sacrlfloe.” The youthful desperado was held by Magistrate Cornell in the West side police court without bail under the Sullivan, law. His mother was in coprt, but did not make any charges. wasn't necessary the court assured her. Little Dickie Boy will be an example of.