Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Strangely Tongue-Tied. [ARTICLE]

Strangely Tongue-Tied.

A singular story of how Jack Frost captured a burglar comes from Fort Benton, Montana, by' way of a dispatch to the Philadelphia Times. During the severely coltt weather in January Tip Burbank, a notorious robber, went out alone one night to make a raid on the First National Bank of this place. His plan was to enter through a window at the rear of the building and make his way through the offices to the vault. An iron grating protected the window. The night was intensely cold and the streets were line glass, a heavy snow having melted as it fell and then frozen smooth and hard. While Tip was filing the first bar of the grating his foot slipped, throwing him forward violently against the window. As luck would have ft, the fall jerked his mouth open, his tongue was forced between his lips, and froze instantly- to tlie icy iron bars. All efforts to release himself were vain, as, nothing short of pulling his tongue out by the roots would have effected this, and he could not bring himself to that. A watchman making bis rounds found him a half-hour later almost dead with cold. Tip is alive, and safely housed in jail now, but his tongue will never wag again. It is completely and hopelessly paralyzed.