Show CRIMINAL ETHICS ARE Drunkard Considers Himself I More Aristocratic Than Pos Possessor Possessor Possessor sessor of Firearm BOTH MEN ARE IN JAIL SIMILARITY 51 M I LARITY OF OF NAMES CAUSES N I A MISTAKE From Prom a psychological standpoint st a drunkard Is on a much higher plane DIane than a man who I displays a huge re revolver volver olver to awaken fear tear and arid trembling In the hearts of oC barroom if It one Is to believe the theory of ot William Bird a chronic yet as he himself avers gentlemanly gen drunkard Through a series serles of ot mishaps it was made to appear In The Herald yester ester o day morning that William Bird a cook was in Jail for flashing a gigantic six shooter In the proximity of the noses of ot some BOrne dozen terrified and thirsty men meB In the Red Top saloon This Bird resented and anti proceeded to 1 I the office o ot of The Herald to tell the city I editor what he thought of ot him When I he entered the office of ot that dignitary he struck an attitude and indignantly stated that he ha had not been arrested for carrying concealed weapons but that he was a 9 citizen It developed later that the man ar arrested arrested arrested rested for flashing the revolver was William and not Bird though he was booked on the police records as William Bird Bir Whether or not Borough had designs on the fair tair name and rep of or Bird or whether the simi larity of names caused the desk ser sor sergeant sergeant geant to make the mistake is IR still RUn a mooted question However the tho fact remains that and not Bird vas WitS the possessor of ot the revolver and for forthe forthe the offense Judge WhItaker gave him twenty days in tho the city Jail yesterday afternoon That Bird could not have hae been the theman th theman man was very apparent from the fact that at the time Borough was arrested Bird was serving a sentence for drunk drunkenness enness In the same institution a fact which he had neglected to mention un til questioned closely Bird is a t trusty hURt at the tho city olty Jail jaU and in his leisure mo moments moments moments ments yesterday afternoon found time to protest against the story which made It appear that he had been arrested be fore tore his present term of incarceration had expired Therefore The Herald in Justice to Mr rr Bird is glad to state that Bird is isn isa isa a n drunkard a gentlemanly drunkard if you ou please and not the man who In the cowering spectators at the Red Top saloon with his huge re olver volver v |