OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.
"I want to see the editor !"
The office-boy took one glance at the burly caller's furious face, and flew. In ten seconds he was back again
"This w-way !" he stammered, and showed the visitor into the sanctum sanctorram, where the editor, calm and unruffled, sat at his littered desk.
"You said in yesterday's paper I'd oe hanged !" roared the man. "It's false ! I've never even ber.n condemned, let alone hanged !"
'"l'm sotry n " returned the great man coolly ; '"but it is our policy never to issue direct contradictions. They shake -.the confidence of the reader."
".ill right f" bellowed the injured one, rolling, uj > his sleeves. "Now, jest you "
"Pray don't \ 'xcite yourself!" interposed the edii :or suavely, pressing a button. "I'll tell you what we'll lo for you. We* 11 say you were cut lown before life i extinct. James show this fell®>w out !"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 2
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151OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 2
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