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Show "TOO FAT MAN" VEXES POLICE Three Patrolmen and Chauffeur Required to Load "Sleeper" Into Auto. Three hundred pounds of Intoxicated humanity is easier handiod In Installments Install-ments of about 150 pounds each than when all done up In one suit of clothes, according to Patrolman L. .Mayhue and other memtan of tno police department who aided In taking to headquarters last nlfc'ht a man too drunk to be booked by any other name than John Doc. Finding the stout citizen, dressed In his bost Hull of clothes, reclining comfortably comfort-ably on the pavement at Third South and Main streets, Patrolman Mayhuo first undertook to stand the lnebrlato on his feet. Tho policeman, himself, weighs more than 200 pounds. He found that by dint of much exertion ho could turn the recumbent over. Also he found that once turned over the rotund party could be either rocked with an easy, sleep-provoklnar sleep-provoklnar motion, or spun round at a dizzy speed. But to stand his prisoner upright, the policeman found quite another an-other thing- Two citizens came to his asslstanoo. With tho man braced against the alarm box post. Mayhue rang for the patrol. Three policemen worked -allantly to load the prisoner, but not until big- Donnls Sullivan, the driver, lent a hand was ho successfully hoisted aboard. Whon last seen the dovotce of the flowing- bowl waa lylna; on the floor of a cell In the city ajil, his broadcloth suit looking strangely out of place, and a smlie of blissful Bacchanalian content on his features was eloquent of his indifference in-difference to tho trouble of tho sweating- policemen who hod lodged him there. |