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a riyilantc to briii;/ criminals to summary justin'.A Favorvijle Report.— A few* days ago (lie district attorney of New Orleans filed an information against Hon. Mr. Ogden. sjie.iker of tin* house of representatives, for carry in# concealed weapons. It is said tin* speaker’s pistol fell from his pocket and exploded while Hu* house was considering a hill • to provide more stringent penalties : against carrying concealed weapons. I If so, asChai les Vellowplnsh would say, I we can “Fancy Ham!ink,* fcolinks when the hill met such u favorable report from the Speaker's chair. The City Item says, “That explosion in the Speaker's chair yesterdray is the cause of many mysterioussurmises. Was it a pistol? was it a dynamite? was it a torpedo? The believers in dynamite appear to be most numerous, bur as the quantity must have been extremely small, or was counteracted by some biologic force. It could not have been a pistol, for the House was at I lint time considering the propriety of increasing the penalty for carrying concealed weapous.”—[Lake Charles Echo.A few days ago, in the Legist lire, as the speaker arose to put some question in relation to punishment forcarry- , ing concealed weapons, a loud report was | heard iu hi* rear. No one was astonished. more than the speaker at the report.The mystery has never been officially j explained. It is not possible that the distiugished representative from New « Orleans ocenpying that prdiuiuent posi- | tion had any pistols in his pockets.As there was an opening in the speak- i era pauts, in the rear portions thereof, j perhaps they caught 011 a tiaii ill rising t nud it was the noise occasioned bv the Ilt;
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Saint Landry Democrat
Opelousas, Louisiana, US
Sat, Mar 06, 1880
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