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Show THEIR JOKES LED THEM TO PRISON. 1 Salt Lake Women Telephone Mythical Orders to i Tradesmen and to Undertakers. Oakland, April 4. A dozen butchers, three undertakers and a deputy coroner were given lively live-ly runs today as the result of pranks played by two young women, who, when taken into custody, gave the names of Alice Drew and Dora Wilson. They claim they are traveling and that their home is In Salt Lake, says the San Francisco Chronicle. They have been at the Californii? hotel at Sixth street and Broadway, and early this morning they called into use the telephone and notified the coroner that a man who had been occupying room 14 in the hotel had died very suddenly. The same message was given to three different undertakers, under-takers, and each one was requested to go to the hotel at once and prepare the body for burial. The butchers were informed that the person residing in that hotel wanted various kinds of orders or-ders of meat sent to his room without loss of time. The deputy coroner, the undertakers and the butcher made the trip only to learn that the person occupying that room was a young mechanic, me-chanic, who had no need of their services. Some of them reported the matter to the police and Detective Shorey was sent to the hotel to investigate. inves-tigate. He stationed himself where he could overhear any conversation carried on by means of the hotel telephone and had not long to wait before the girls began calling up other tradesmen. When taken to the police station, rney admitted ad-mitted that they were responsible for the joke, as they expressed it, and said they had been ampiy repaid for their trouble by watching the tradesmen trades-men and the reception they received when they attempted to deliver their goods to room 14. The most amusing feature, from their standpoint, was to see the three undertakers hurrying to the hotel ho-tel to prepare the body of the supposed dead man for burial. The girls watched the happenings about room 14 from the upper floor hallway. They explained to Chief Hodgkins that they had been in Oakland for a month and that they intended to start for Los Angeles in a few days, and they were allowed to go. They admitted that they had resided in San Francisco before coming to this side of the bay, and said that on several occasions they had given the San Francisco Fran-cisco morgue officials will-o'-the-wisp runs. |
