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The Ludington (Michigan) Record
Thursday, July 30, 1896
Volume XXIX

        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 cold 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 offices to
      the vault.  An iron grating protected the win-
      dow.
        The night was intensely cold and the streets
      were like 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 it, the fall jerked his
      mouth open, his tongue was forced between his
      lips, and froze instantly to the icy iron bars.
      All efforts to release himself were in 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 his 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.
      
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