Show J FILLING WASHS SHOES Loony Vag who Befnseg to Leave the City Prison The legitimate successor to poor old Wash has arisen aroundthe City Hall in the person of an old Swedishman who answers to the name of Peterson Some four years ago Peterson was arrested ar-rested for making his bedchamber in aha a-ha stack somewhere in the southern suburbs After serving a term for vagrancy va-grancy he again cawe within the clutches of the police for some slight offense and was brought before Judge Spiers for trial suddenly developed such cranky symptoms that it was bought beat to defer his trial until he improved but ever since that time be has been getting more and more loonv till now he isaccepted as > Ctm as permanent a Cituic uC ties Ml 19 ever old Wash was All at tim ti to induce him to leave have been in vain i no one knows who he ia or whence he came though there is a tradition abroad that he was at some period subsisting the b Unty of the Cann County officials He preserves an utter and stolid silence from morn log till night and about the only words he utters are when the officers urge him to Clear out and go homewhen he plaintively says I wants my tria11 wants ml trial He sleeps inside the jail with the other prisoner and acts a janitor around the hall performing per-forming all such duties as sweeping out building fires etc He gradually grows worse in his mind and from some of his mutttrings the officers are inclined to think that he may grow violent and some favor having him trans erred to the Asylum He is appar ntly 50 or 55 ears of age speaks very broken English and has a shock iMud of hair cut so high in the neck that be always looks as if he wore an Ulfitting wig |