Attorney is First To Break Own Law

1920

AUBURN, N. Y. — Writing a law, being the first to break it, and then being called to the police station to tell why — that is the experience of Corporation Counsel William S. Elder of this city. Elder has just sponsored a new set of traffic regulations destined to aid in the safety movement.

It was discovered that the corporation counsel's sedan was resting comfortably in the restricted area where automobiles are allowed to park for only ten minutes, while its owner labored on city law problems in his office.

A traffic officer tied a little tag on the machine, notifying the driver that he had broken traffic regulations.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 1.

American Bar Association

1916

Senator George Sutherland of Utah was elected president of the American Bar Association for 1917, defeating by four votes Walter George Smith of Philadelphia. The vote was 26 for Senator Sutherland and 22 for Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith was put on the executive committee.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 3.

His Impressive Looks

1901

Trumbull's cradle was in Connecticut. He came of the old Jonathan Trumbull breed. As a young man he went south to teach school, but he liked it not and dipped into law books. As soon as he was equal to his examination he was called to the Georgia bar, but he never paused to practice there. He migrated to Illinois, then the utter west and settled at Belleville, St. Clair county, in that part of the state known as Egypt.

There he at once took a leading place at the bar. He was always courtly, always carefully polite, what one might call a bit cold, yet he had great sway with the juries. He was a clear, cogent reasoner and had a trick of admonishing with his forefinger. Sometimes it would seem as if that potent forefinger wove a spell. I doubt not it has brought many a jury in its time to Trumbull's side of the question.

Such were the impressive looks of Trumbull that I recall what Governor Reynolds once said of him as he closed his argument in a law case. Trumbull was on the other side.

"And now, gentlemen," said Reynolds as he prepared to close: "I've answered his arguments. I've overturned his statement of facts. I've undone the fallacious law he has announced to you; but, gentlemen, the man never lived who can reply to his looks!" — Chicago Tribune.

Rules for the Consumptive

1914

New Jersey Board of Health in Laudable Endeavor to Prevent Spread of Tuberculosis

Acting under a law of 1912, the New Jersey state board of health has issued the following rules, which are to be followed by all consumptives in that state:

1. All persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis (consumption) shall effectively destroy their sputum (spit).

2. All persons suffering from running sores due to any form of tuberculosis shall burn all soiled dressings immediately after removal.

3. The room occupied by a tuberculosis patient shall have at least one outside window.

4. No person suffering from pulmonary or other communicable form of tuberculosis shall handle food designed for the use of others except when necessary in the performance of household duties, unless the food be wrapped in such a way as to protect it from contamination or unless some necessary subsequent process of preparation such as cooking will sterilize it.

5. The manufacturing of any kind of goods for commercial purposes or the performance of any work known as "shop work" in the home of any person suffering from pulmonary or other communicable form of tuberculosis, is prohibited, unless the product is such as can be sterilized, and unless sterilization is done in strict accordance with the requirements of the local board of health.

The Pestiferous Corner Loafer

Chicago, 1910

A week's attendance at any police court will convince anyone that the curse of the town is the loafer, the professional "out of work" cuss who pretends to be hunting a job, and hunts well that the job may not overtake him.

He manages to live off of some one. If foolish relatives do not supply him with a living, he makes it by his wits, with the help of a brace and bit and a "jimmy" and friends (?) who through fear, or by influence will take the stand to testify to his character, hence he escapes and the community suffers. He can always find a way around the vagrancy laws, and like the poor, he is always with us.

Lost to all sense of shame or decency, he lives off a mother, brother or sister's work, or even a woman's shame, anything but work by his own hands. The health department is great on prescribing remedies for all sorts of evils, and we sincerely wish they would tackle this job of getting rid of the pestiferous loafer.

—Suburbanite Economist, Chicago, Aug. 19, 1910, p. 1.

Note: The typesetting on this editorial had some of the words and portions of lines switched around, and apparently some words left out. I patched it up to make it make sense. The question mark (?) after "friends" is as in the original, which may have been someone in the typesetting department with a bad manuscript wondering what was going on with the context. I think it's questioning whether the loafer's friends are really friends. But with the botched up text, the "com-" from community is hooked on to "friends" and someone might be saying, "What???"

Faithful Dog Avenges a Policeman

1910

NEW YORK. — Patrolman Lawrence Cummins of the East One Hundred and Fourth street police station, on whose post the car barn gang has its headquarters, was beaten savagely by members of that band and was in the hospital for several weeks.

The first request Cummins made to Capt. Corcoran when he reported again for duty was to be assigned to his old post. He said he wanted to show the toughs that he was not afraid of them and that they could not drive a policeman from his place of duty. Capt. Corcoran took the same view and sent Cummins back.

From the moment he resumed his work the gang annoyed Cummins, hut it was not until the other night that the roughs got a chance to "do him up" again. He found about a dozen of them on the street insulting women who passed.

"Move on," commanded Cummins. But a truck driver, 19 years old, hurled insults at the policeman. Cummins arrested him. The rest of the gang disappeared, Cummins started for the police station with his prisoner, but as they went along there was a call from a roof. The prisoner broke from Cummins and ran into a house. The gang had gone to a roof, torn away the chimney and waited for the policeman and his prisoner. When the signal was given and the prisoner had fled from the firing zone his friends hurled the chimney bricks down at Cummins. After three had struck him on the head he fell unconscious. Men who saw the attack ran to the station. Sgt. Higgins and eight bluecoats raced to the rescue of their comrade.

Twice a week a Dalmatian dog, Bessie, who belongs to truck company No. 26 on One Hundred and Fourteenth street, visits the East One Hundred and Fourth street station, and has a supper at the expense of John Ritter. That night she was there and she went with the rescue squad.

When the men entered the house from which the bricks had been hurled on Cummins the dog went with them. But while the sergeant and his men went to the roof Bessie stopped at the second floor.

Back in a dark corner of the tenement hallway she had caught sight of a man, and, instead of going further, she leaped for him. She got a good grip on his trousers and he could not beat her off. Five minutes afterward the policemen on their way back to the street after a fruitless search, heard a scuffle. They found Bessie still holding on to the man. He was the escaped prisoner.

Burying Live People – Another Lucky Escape

1878

Burying Live People

Another lucky escape from burial alive has occurred in Paris in the case of a lawyer named Lelone. His son, summoned to his deathbed, found him, as it was supposed, dead, kissed his brow, and was surprised at its warmth. Some hours later he revived, and said: "Ah, doctor, these few moments sleep have done me a world of good."

The French laws require that interment shall follow death within at most thirty-six hours, and thus it often happens that burial takes place previous to putrefaction. It was against this limited time imposed by the burial bill that an eminent prelate so powerfully protested in the French Chamber, relating how he himself had been laid out for burial. Here, too, in Summer, burial takes place much too soon. In England at least five days intervene.

Police Chief Puts Ban on Ogling Women

1910

Ft. Wayne Chief of Police Orders Arrest of All Offenders

FT. WAYNE, Ind. -- Chief of Police W. F. Borgman has issued a stringent order against ogling women and audibly commenting on them on the streets by young idlers of the city. Borgman declares that this practice has reached alarming proportions. The police are to arrest all offenders.

—Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Jan. 8, 1910, p. 9.


1936

Anti-Ogling Ordinance Goes Goo-Goo

LOS ANGELES, March 18. -- It sounds simple enough, to come up with an anti-ogling ordinance to shield the women of this city from the ogling eyes of men, but one such proposed law collapsed tonight due to a technicality.

The ordinance as proposed would have made it a crime for "two or more men or boys 14 years of age or over to ogle women in public places," but it was revealed to have no provision for protecting men and boys from women who also might ogle.

A legal opinion from City Attorney Ray Chesebro declared the law to be "rank discrimination," and added that it would be hard to enforce, and there would be "the virtual impossibility of getting a jury of men who have not themselves ogled at one time or another."

The city council dropped the law. It had been designed as the cornerstone of a set of municipal "blue laws," offered by Councilman G. Vernon Bennett, in an effort to make Los Angeles "a fit place to live in."

The language defining legal ogling went like this: "To view with amorous or inviting glance." The city attorney's opinion said that an anti-ogling law would not be illegal in itself, were it not discriminatory. "Ogling is ogling. If it is reprehensible for men and boys, it is also reprehensible for the female. There should be no sex in an anti-ogling law."

Other difficulties were noted. The city attorney's opinion raised the question, "Who is to judge when ogling is indecent? A policeman who does not himself ogle, may make arrests readily. One who ogles may be more tolerant." There was also this practical difficulty in enforcement: What if a man gets a bug in his eye? If he ogling or simply digging out the bug?

Despite this setback, Councilman Bennett intends to carry on his campaign to render Los Angeles more moral.

—Written 2007 from original article of 1936.

Likes Jail So Much, Now a Career in Law Enforcement

New Jersey, 1917

LIKES JAIL SO MUCH HE'S GOING TO STAY

Hackensack, N. J. — Ten months ago George Wilkins of Englewood started a term in the Bergen county jail for embezzlement of funds from the Englewood Golf club.

During the ten months George has achieved things, to wit: Won admiration by songs, helped tabulate election votes, conducted Christmas reception, captivated reformers by his "sweet manners." Widespread was George's fame and plots were hatched to wean him away from Sheriff Caurter, but George liked his surroundings so much he refused to leave. And now that his term is up he is going to remain where he is — as the sheriff's confidential clerk.

—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA, Aug. 23, 1917.


Making 'Em Bite.

A street car passenger stooped to pick up something from the floor.
"Who has lost a dime?" he asked.
At once half a dozen passengers began fumbling in their pockets, until one of them held out his hand and declared that he had dropped the coin.
"Does it bear the date — 1860?" inquired the finder.
"Yes, certainly."
"Is one side rather worn?"
"Just so."
"Here you are, then," said the finder and handed him a trousers button."


In the Rear.

Stella—Was Jack wounded at the front, then?
Maud—No; he came home on leave and sat on a wasp's nest.

Dangerous Man Resists Arrest, Armed with Winchester, Two Revolvers

Edgermont, South Dakota, 1909--

A DANGEROUS MAN.

Armed with a Winchester and Two Revolvers, He Resisted Arrest by Officers.

Edgermont S. D., Aug. 16.— The authorities here have in custody an apparently dangerous man, who recently was captured at Ardmore after an exciting chase.

The prisoner, whose name is unknown, had been working on the ranch of Albert Seske, near here, but left suddenly, taking with him a Winchester rifle and some other property belonging to his employer. Learning that the fugitive was at the ranch of a man named Bell, Frank Heppner was deputized to proceed there and arrest him.

When the officer arrived on the ground, the fugitive stood him off with a couple of revolvers and the stolen rifle and compelled him to return empty handed.

The fugitive proceeded to Ardmore where he finally was captured by George Sweet, a local officer. The prisoner will now be compelled to answer in court to the charges of grand larceny and resisting an officer, both of which are penitentiary offenses.

--Weekly State Spirit and Dakota Huronite, Huron, South Dakota, August 26, 1909, page 7.

Automobilists or Horsemen - Who Has Most Cussedness?

South Dakota, 1909--

FAULT ON BOTH SIDES

Automobilists Say that Horsemen are Often in the Wrong

Much has been said and written locally of late referring to the carelessness and all around cussedness of automobile owners as a class, but no one has come forward to assert that there was another side to the matter, until this morning when one of the most enthusiastic motorists of the city ventured into the Huronite office and remarked that the chauffeur had his troubles as well as anyone else.

At a recent city council meeting the matter of fast and careless driving was brought to the attention of the city fathers. The complaint was that some of the autoists of the city were in the habit of speeding on First street, and thus endangering the lives of all who dared to put foot on that highway. The chief of police was instructed to obtain the numbers of all who thus violated the city ordinance and to bring them to time, and this was a wise and timely act.

All motorists, however, are not bent on the shedding of human blood along the public thoroughfares, and they in their turn meet with difficulties presented by others on the roads. It is a known fact that a prejudice exists among certain people against automobiles, and that they refuse to give them even the half the road that is their's. They will turn to the left and do other things to inconvenience the drivers of machines. If they acted thus upon meeting another team they would expect sooner or later to have an accident, and there is the same possibility in the case of trying to tease the automobilists. There should be fairness on both sides, and the police should be instructed to look after the irresponsible among horse drivers as well as among auto drivers.

--Weekly State Spirit and Dakota Huronite, Huron, South Dakota, August 26, 1909, page 7.

Wife Reveals Husband's Terrible Cruelty

Beacon Falls, Connecticut, 1902
---------
HUSBAND'S CRUELTY.
SHOCKING TALE TOLD BY MRS. JAMES SANFORD IN BEACON FALLS.

Said Her Husband Knocked Her Down, Stuck a Fishhook into Her Breast and Stabbed Her With a Penknife – The Assault Is Said to Have Been Committed in the Town of Bethany – Sanford Placed Under Arrest on Charges of Assault – Found Guilty of a Charge of Theft – Assault Case May Be Tried in Bethany.

A tale of human cruelty that is really shocking in its recital was related by Mrs. James Sanford of Oxford to Constable George Butz of Beacon Falls yesterday afternoon and resulted in the arrest of the woman's husband on a serious charge. Some of the domestic affairs of Sanford and his wife have been told in the public prints before but never has such a charge been preferred against the husband as that made yesterday by his wife.

It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when Constable Butz saw Mr. and Mrs. Sanford walking along one of the streets of Beacon Falls, and having suspected Sanford of being implicated in the theft of some tools which were taken from Fred Smith's carpenter shop a few days since, he decided to follow the couple. Mr. Sanford left his wife on the street and went over to the house of an acquaintance.

Constable Butz came along shortly afterward and Mrs. Sanford informed him that she desired to prefer a charge of assault against her husband. She said that she left home last Wednesday and went to the home of a friend in Bethany; that the husband followed her and compelled her to return with him, that on the way to Beacon Falls he took her to a by-path off the road, knocked her down and stuck a fishhook into her left breast. She said he worked the fishhook in such a way as to cause her terrible pain and that finding it impossible to get the implement of torture out by working it he cut it out with his knife. She said he then sank his teeth into her flesh and stabbed her twice between the breasts remarking that he might as well finish her then as at any time. She said he also pricked her just above the right breast with the fishhook and then let her up. She then walked on to Beacon Falls with him.

After hearing her story Constable Butz placed Sanford under arrest and took Mrs. Sanford to his home where she showed the wounds on her breast. She appeared to be in great pain. She was made as comfortable as possible by Mrs. Butz. Sanford when questioned denied having cut his wife or stuck a fishhook into her but admitted the ownership of the knife which his wife said he had used. It is a pocketknife with a three-inch blade. He said his wife had lain down on the ground and that he had gently kicked and slapped her but that he had done nothing more.

He was brought before Justice Allen in Beacon Falls this morning and tried on a charge of assault. During the trial there arose a question as to whether the alleged assault was committed in Beacon Falls or in Bethany, and it was decided to adjourn court until it could be determined in which town the offense was committed. The court officials and Mrs. Sanford and her husband drove to the place.

Previous to the adjournment of court for this purpose Mr. Sanford was tried on a charge of theft. It was alleged that he had entered Fred Smith's carpenter shop and carried away eight steel bits, a glass cutter and a package of nails. Sanford pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Constable Butz told how he had learned from Mrs. Sanford that her husband had come home between 2 and 3 o'clock Sunday morning and had among other things some steel bits, a glass cutter and some nails and that when she asked him where he got them he replied that some one had been trying to do some "monkeywork" with them; that he had hidden the steel bits about a quarter of a mile from the house. Mr. Butz said he went to the place mentioned and found the bits. He found the glass cutter and nails in Sanford's house. Mrs. Sanford corroborated the testimony given by Constable Butz.

Sanford claimed to have bought the cutter and nails but said he knew nothing about the bits. He was found guilty of the charge of theft, but sentence was reserved until after the trial of the other charges.

The court officials returned shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon and stated that the place where the alleged assault was committed was in the town of Bethany. It was decided to bring the case to the attention of the Bethany authorities. The Beacon Falls officials intend to do all in their power to bring the case to trial and will give the Bethany authorities all the assistance they can.

Late this afternoon Sanford was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to serve 10 days in jail for theft. It was stated this afternoon that residents of Beacon Falls became quite excited when they learned of the statement made by Mrs. Sanford, and the feeling against her husband ran high.

About two years ago it was alleged that Sanford had committed a brutal assault upon his wife, in the town of Oxford but if he did he was not given the punishment he deserved. The Oxford officials were subjected to some sharp criticism for the apparently listless manner in which they acted on the case at the time.

--Naugatuck Daily News, Naugatuck, Connecticut, April 4, 1902, page 4.


SANFORD GOES TO JAIL.

Could Get No One to Pay the Fine Imposed on Him for Theft – Bethany Officials to Prosecute Him on the Charge of Assault Preferred by His Wife.

James Sanford of Oxford, the man who is charged by his wife with having brutally assaulted her in the town of Bethany while the couple were on their way home to Oxford was taken to New Haven this morning by Constable Butz in default of payment of a fine of $7 and costs imposed on Sanford yesterday by Justice Allen of Beacon Falls after finding Sanford guilty of a charge of theft of some carpenter's tools from a building owned by Fred Smith of Beacon Falls. The justice at first declared his intention of making the penalty $5 and costs and 10 days in jail but later decided to make it $7 and costs. Sanford could find no one to pay his fine.

Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Sanford in company with a Beacon Falls official went to Bethany where formal complaint against Sanford on the charge of assault was made. Mrs. Sanford decided to remain in Bethany and is there at present. Grand Juror Swander who came to Beacon Falls from Bethany this morning said Mrs. Sanford was feeling as well as could be expected. It is not thought that her injuries will result seriously. The grand juror informed Constable Butz that the officials of Bethany had determined to prosecute Sanford on the assault charge as soon as the latter was released from jail. He said he would immediately prepare the papers.

Sanford still claims that he did not cut his wife with a knife or stick a fishhook into her breast. He expressed the opinion that the woman was not in her right mind. Constable Butz stated to a News reporter to-day that Mrs. Sanford's injuries were fully as bad as reported and that there was no doubt that the woman had been roughly handled. He said Sanford appeared to be very much out of spirits this morning because he had to go to jail.

--Naugatuck Daily News, Naugatuck, Connecticut, April 12, 1902, page 4.

Found Guilty, Later Acquitted of Hog Stealing

----------

PEARL YEOTHERS FOUND GUILTY OF HOG STEALING

Pearl Yeothers was found guilty of stealing hogs from Dr. Ernest Stubbs during the flood and was fined $5 and costs in Judge Smith's court in Jackson township Tuesday. An appeal was taken to the Livingston county court.

--The Chillicothe Constitution, Chillicothe, Missouri, August 4, 1909, page 1.



PEARL YEOTHERS IS ACQUITTED

AFTER LONG DELIBERATION JURY SAYS NOT GUILTY.

Defendant Was Charged With Stealing Two Hogs From Ernest Stubbs During the Flood.

The jury in the case of the State of Missouri vs. Pearl Yeothers, charged with petit larceny, brought in a verdict of not guilty just before noon Thursday.

The jury was out five hours.

--The Chillicothe Constitution, Chillicothe, Missouri, January 13, 1910, page 3.

Comment: Pearl's last name is spelled both Yoethers and Yeothers in both articles.

Teaches Parrot to Swear at Husband; He Asks a Divorce

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 20 -- If a wife teaches a parrot to "cuss out" her husband, is it sufficient grounds for divorce?

This issue has been put to Special Master in Chancery Slack in the suit brought by Maltby H. Messick, a city fireman and overseas veteran, against Mary R. Messick.

Mrs. Mamie Allen, a relative of the defendant, testified that during a visit to her home in Philadelphia Mrs. Messick had a parrot in the room with her constantly and it received a regular schooling in modern cussing.

Mrs. Messick, according to Mrs. Allen, said she was "teaching the bird to cuss and swear so it could express her opinion of her husband when he got home."

Messick, who was a top sergeant to Battery B, 112th Artillery, admitted the bird had an entirely new line "that was worse than any German gas he had bumped into!" Capt. Hiram Steelman, his old commander, now his counsel, pins his entire case on the linguistic parrot.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 1.

Love, Booze, Temper, Murder

----------
ANOTHER MURDER.

Again Love and Booze and Temper End In Murder—Inquest Held on Saturday.

John Miller, a Slav, was shot and killed during a quarrel at the tipple at Sample Run, near Sample Run schoolhouse. It is the old story of jealousy, maddened by fiery liquor. Miller, it is alleged, was to have been married two weeks ago, but after his sweetheart, Lizzie Telli,[*] had danced with one Pete Horwath she would not live up to her promise, and Miller accused Horwath of meddling and made dire threats of what he would do.

Both men went to Clymer Saturday and both indulged in that which maddens the brain of a sane man, and it is alleged that Miller threatened death to Horwath, who took the precaution to secure a revolver before starting home in the evening.

About 8 o'clock in the evening the men met at Sample Run tipple, where, according to Horwath's testimony, Steve Honesky hit him over the head with some weapon, knocking him down, and as he lay he shot at Honesky, who ran, and then at Miller, who fell. Horwath went to his boarding house and told them he had shot Miller because he was attacked and then went to the office of Squire France to give himself up and prefer charges for assault and battery against Honesky and was met by the latter, who had preceded him to the squire's office to prefer charges against Horwath for the murder of Miller.

Honesky said it was one John Urchuk who struck Horwath. All three men were arrested.

Dr. Ney Prothero, who attended to Pete Horwath's injuries, Oliver Householder, Earl Fleming and Joe Kauffman drove to the scene of accident, and each walking on separate tracks at Sample Run tipple with lanterns Dr. Prothero discovered Miller's body beside track lying on his face and a bullet having entered left chest. The man was still warm but life extinct. The men carefully placed the body in schoolhouse for night and Coroner Gates was notified and at 9 o'clock Saturday morning held an inquest, the jury consisting of Howard Smith, Oliver Householder, Ezra Helman, John Byron, William Laud and Lew Helman.

The jury rendered a verdict as follows: "John Miller came to his death from a gun shot wound, said gun fired by Pete Horwath."

The deceased and accused had been the best of friends and worked in same room in Sample Run mines. But a week ago, September 7, they had words over the girl named Lizzie Tilli, whom Miller intended to marry, but she turned him down for Peter Horwath. Miller had not touched liquor for two years until this time and he started drinking and claimed he and Pete must fight it out for the girl, and the Saturday following he or Pete would marry the girl, depending on who survived.

Miller was dead Saturday, September 14, the girl fled to Barnesboro two days previous and Peter Horwath, Steve Honesky and John Urchuk all lodged in Indiana jail to await the decision of the December court.

--The Indiana Weekly Messenger, Indiana, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1907, page 1.

[*] Lizzie's last name is spelled two different ways, Tilli and Telli. A couple other papers from the region only have Telli. But in one, the Indiana County Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 9-18-1907, Honesky is Honskey and Horwath is Horbat . And I'm not going to sort that all out!

The Sinking of a Small Island

----------
Frequent seismic manifestations of late had prepared the world for news of some such upheaval as that which is reported off the coast of Salvador, accompanied by the sinking of a small island. This has involved a lamentable loss of life, and illustrates anew the peril of making homes in the earthquake-ridden sections of the earth, for several similar catastrophes have occurred in that quarter.
----------
In Colorado they propose a law making it an offense for doctors to cut out patients' appendices unless it is necessary. The enactment of such a statute would enable us to foresee the time when professional ethics would require every doctor to testify that all his brother practitioners' appendix-pruning was positively required.
----------
Feminine Financiering
He -- I've won our bet on the football game and you owe me ten kisses.
She (a commercial school graduate) -- Very well, I'll give you a draft on mamma.
----------
Advertisement (1911)

Nothing Can Compare with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for genuine goodness when the system has been weakened by some severe illness or when you suffer from Poor Appetite, Sour Risings, Headache, Bloating, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Colds, Grippe and Malaria. Thousands have found this true during the past 57 years. Why not you today, but be sure to get the genuine.
HOSTETTER'S CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTER.

--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.

Hapless Happy's Unhappy Mishap

While Killing a Dog Wednesday the Czar of Central Park Shoots Himself in the Foot.

The sharp crack of a revolver followed by an agonized yell of pain startled the people around the police station Wednesday.

The next instant fearless "Happy" Dow, the Central park cop, who has won an enviable reputation for the bravery which he has displayed in shooting any small dogs which happen to invade the sacred precincts of the park, dashed into the police station and with a shaking voice which percolated through the aperture in his pale face, he exclaimed, "I've shot myself! I've shot myself!"

As the faithful keeper of the flower beds and overseer of the Central park zoo did not appear to be in any imminent danger of kicking the bucket, the officers who were about the station did not consider it necessary to call an ambulance and after a time "Happy" recovered sufficiently to tell that while he was indulging in his favorite pastime of shooting a dog in the yard adjacent to the police station, he had shot himself in the foot. He had held the dog in one hand while he shot with the other and he aimed the revolver in such a way that after passing through the little dog it struck the rubber boot which he was wearing, just over the great toe of his left foot, resulting in a slight abrasion of the flesh.

The great danger, say those who were near when the accident occurred, was that "Happy" would die of fright, but after being soothed and reassured he was able to return to his Central park domain.

The suggestion is made at the police station that "Happy's" real revolver be replaced with a large and imposing looking paper cap pistol, which could scarcely be told from a real one when seen sticking out of the officer's hip pocket and would be much less dangerous, at the same time answering all ordinary requirements of "Happy" in the performance of such duties as mowing the grass in Central park and feeding the fishes and the squirrels.

--The Mansfield News, Mansfield, Ohio, April 22, 1909, page 5.

Juror Now A Maniac

Goes Mad After Conviction of Husband-Slayer—New Trial Asked.

Cambridge, Mass., May 10.—The development of insanity by Willis A. White of Maynard, one of the jurors who on May 4 convicted Chester S. Jordan of the murder of his wife, will be used by Jordan's attorneys in their plea for a new trial.

White returned home at Maynard Tuesday, showing marked effects of the strain of the trial, and yesterday he was sent to the Worcester Insane Hospital.

White was taken to Concord in an automobile from Maynard, and during a brief stop in front of the District Court building he became violent and implored the spectators who gathered about the machine either to save him or to shoot him. In the courtroom it was found necessary to administer a hypodermic injection to quiet him. White is a tall, strong farmer and it difficult to overpower him.

--Warren Evening Mirror, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1909, page 7.

Bill Posters Shock Bridgewater, Pa., Citizens

Council of Borough to Attend to the Matter.

The poster of a young lady thinly draped that is being used by a manufacturing firm to illustrate their product on the billboards of the county evidently met with the hearty disapproval of some of the more moral of the West Bridgewater, Pa., (Beaver Co.) residents and they have defaced the bills.

In different parts of the borough the glaring semi-nude poster was displayed on large billboards and wherever found they have been so defaced that only the head of the young lady remains to tell the nature of the advertisement.

The poster is a remarkable specimen of the printers art and bears all the good points of the craft, but it has evidently shocked the person responsible for its disappearance.

The poster is but one of the many evils that arise when a borough permits large sign boards to be erected within its boundaries and has no ordinance to stipulate the nature of the posters that shall be placed on it. The borough of Rochester recently adopted an ordinance prohibiting the posting of immoral or semi-nude pictures and the passing of handbills, samples of medicine, etc., and it is thought that the same matter will be given consideration at the next meeting of the West Bridgewater council.

--Warren Evening Mirror, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1909, page 1.

Confidence Man Arrested

Detectives Saw Him April 15 but Were Unable to Leave the President.

New York, May 8. — Frederick J. Remington, who says he is a broker, was arrested last night as he was leaving his apartment in Central Park West and locked up at police headquarters awaiting information from Chicago, where it is alleged he obtained $7,000 by a wire-tapping scheme. Detectives Gray and Savage, who made the arrest, saw Remington on April 15 while acting as President Taft's bodyguard here. They were unable to leave the president at the time but began a search resulting in Remington's detention last night.

Chicago, May 8.—Frederick J. Remington, arrested in New York, was indicted in June, 1907, under the confidence game law. The evidence concerned a St. Louis merchant, who said he lost $7,000 on an "advance tip" on a race horse.

The police say Remington is a gambler, working in poker games on railroad trains and in steamships. A detective will leave for New York to get Remington.

--Warren Evening Mirror, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1909, page 6.