| Show Brings Brin Another Entry Into the I Cl DUg h s Catch C at C h Contest for Place as a Sleuth I Yesterday morning at 23 minutes aft after after after er 9 oclo k Patrolman Bill Clough dough brought into police lolice headquarters a gone individual who from sur surface surface surface face indications might have been ta taken taken ken for a lineman on a 8 wireless tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph system The desk sergeant aft after after er or scrutinizing the prisoner closelY decided he was nothing but the garden variety of drunk The official took up his rusty pen and commenced H t l conversation with the shivering prisoner The Tho latter mod modestly modestly modestly estly admitted that his na nani was J Hapgood alias Happy Happ Ipp His nationality he lie said was merican and his occupation that of oC a professional man At first he refused to divulge specifically the profession that he followed but upon being bein press pressed ed oil confessed that he was an embalm embalmer er in a canning C factory He was very coy CO about his age saying that he was born fifty years ago but was In reality only forty years of age having spent ten years In prison for putting a lead nickel 1 into a telephone slot Were Yere you sentenced by Judge Arm Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong strong inquired the sergeant ab absently absently absently and then remembering this in information Information information formation was superfluous wrote drunk In the blank space on the blot blotter blotter blotter ter and prepared to take up a political discussion at a point where he hal left Th ThI p I C I CLOUGH ON THE WE TRAIL lott off Meanwhile Patrolman Clough after Introducing his find to the ser sergeant sergeant geant proceeded to borrow a chew of tobacco from a lounger In the station whom he familiarly addresses as Gus GusHe GusHe He ite was nonchalantly aiming at a cus cuspidor cuspidor cu in the far corner comer of the room when he heard the sergeant designate his hla hi prisoner as a plain drunk The of officers officers officers tense tenso cheeks relaxed and a de demoniacal demoniacal grin spread Itself over his classic features J Hold ho he cried pointing an accusing ing hg finger at J 1 Hapgood The prisoner held his breath while Officer Clough dough proceeded to brand him as a hardened criminal While I was walking down State street began the officer I was star startled startled tIed to see this man dash out of a res restaurant restaurant restaurant and run north The manner of flight was pre pres s sum u in p t i 1 v e evi evidence evIdence evidence dence that he had hadz z neglected to pay If A for a meal I also noticed a peculiar hunch to his shoulder which fed me to believe bellev he lie was crooked cooked I pursued him in inthe inTHE THE the act of trying D I I A to throw some someI I thing down a I sew sewer er I caught I I him with tho the goods after a hard hanl fight When he was sufficiently subdued With the aid of my club which the marks on the side of his head will show I took him back to the restaurant le restaurant tu rant whence he make the quick geta getaway getaway getaway way The proprietor told me the man had entered the place and asked Baked for ten cents worth of canned peas He lie must have known the lay of the land for the peas are kept in the t e back baek of the restaurant While the proprietor was getting the peas the suspicious charac chara ter reached into the fish tank in the window of the restaurant and stole a fish When the proprietor returned his attention was called to the fact that the fish were swimming wildly About bout as though greatly excited and anti andon andon antion on closer examination he noticed that one of the fish was missing After telephoning to the hatchery for another fish and serving a cus cusI tomer 1 Ith two poached on a raft he I decided to summon Patrolman Cassi dy He was in the act of calling head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters when Vien hen I walked In with this man and his booty The proprietor was not sure of the suspicious character but easily Identified the fish This is isa Isa isa a pretty scaly case ease but I think It Jus me In entering myself In the tho de contest The prisoner was then searched On his person were found three canceled postage stamps a blank cartridge and three fish hooks books These will be used against him when he ap pears for tor trial |
