A Case of Mistaken Identity

To be taken for a bold, bad burglar fleeing from justice was the rather amusing experience of William Myers, a linotype operator on the Union, yesterday afternoon as he stepped from the O. R. & N. train after a brief visit to Spokane. Earlier in the day, the sheriff's office received a dispatch from Spokane asking that a lookout be kept for a stranger who was charged with burglarizing a Colfax store the night before. The dispatch said the man would probably be on the Spokane train due in Walla Walla at 4 o'clock. Acting upon instructions, Deputies Kees and Ben Gilliam were on hand and as Mr. Myers stepped down from the train he was collared. Appreciating the fact that the officers had made a mistake, Mr. Myers resolved to have a little fun out of the incident and began answering, in a rather hazy manner, questions the officer commenced firing at him regarding his identity and where he hailed from. The joke was carried so far that the officers bundled him into a hack and started for the jail. It was then that Mr. Myers demanded he be taken to the Union office where the manager, no doubt, would establish his identity. The request was complied with and the result was that the officers were the victims of a good-sized 'horse laugh' when he was pronounced a law-abiding citizen.