Local News.
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Title
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Local News.
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Source Type
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Newspaper.
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Author
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N/A.
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Publisher
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The Mobile Daily Tribune.
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Publication Place
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Mobile, AL.
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Publication Date
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February 23, 1875.
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Transcript
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ATTEMPTED BRIBERY.-A colored man, named Taylor Harris, was arrested for disorderly conduct, by Officer O'Brien, who started with him to the guardhouse. On the way Harris asked to stop and leave some keys of the stable where he worked, and while in there tried to slip off his person a revolver that he had concealed. The officer was too smart not to observe the trick, and took the revolver and the prisoner along. On the way down Harris, who seemed to be very much alarmed, offered O'Brien twenty-seven dollars to let him go. He did not succeed, however, for the case was tried, and the whole affair ventilated.
Harris escaped being bound over to answer, because he showed that he was a night watchman at the stable, and required a pistol.
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Sources for
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105-1876120