Show SIGNAL SIGNAL CORPS REEL REEL WAGON IS BY NIGHT REVELERS Police Believe Strikers rs Mistook It for Some New Soil of Machine Gun gathered In the lie armor arm arm- S SOLDIERS ory OVY or In la Pierpont stroet street Jal last t night were shocked lI by the ad advent advent advent ad- ad vent of ot two youths who said some nomo el eight ht rou rough looking h men had ta taken en the signal corps reel wa wagon on from irons In front of ot the armol armory A hurried search revealed re the wagon had been drawn to Broadway and andest est et est Temple streets and aban aban- donea 1 Members of or the lie police department department depart depart- ment merit believe e some Seine Bingham strikers ors ers made the attempt to steal the wa wagon on thinking they tho- had a a. machine gun and they abandoned it when the they saw Raw what It really was in proof of or this thin they cite the statement of or a II youth named H. H Grow Gross Ufe Wea el Fourth South street who said ho lie was walking through Pierpont street with a gun on hl his shoulder while returning returning- front from a hunting trip at 8 o'clock and w was s accosted b by some men who called him a a strikebreaker took tool Iii hl his gun away asay Irons from him and antI struck truck him over o the head with It H. He lie went to the lie almor armory The men he says meanwhile dragged the tho hea heavy wagon away assay Lieutenant Freeman Iy Bassett in charge of or the lie armory at the time disbelieves s the tho strikebreaker stor story In the first place ho lie says nobody with an any Intelligence could possibly mistake a a. a. a reel wagon for Cor a gun Secondly no no- body bOlly except possibly some practical practical cal Jokers jokers' or Intoxicated person persons would tr try to do such a thing thin while the armory ry was crowded with men inca who await the big shooting contest tomorrow Thirdly there could be beno beno beno no ammunition handy hond even It if It was sas a a. dismounted gun Fourthly no s sensible persons persona could expect to get got goter er very far tar with It anho anyhow The reel wagon n On Is to be bo shipped hack back to Washington in the near future as It is 13 obsolete and too to-o hea heavy for service It is kept outside out out- side aide Ille the armory |