Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-14 | Page 18 | Officers Fail to Detect Joke in Fake Hurry Call

Officers Fail to o I Detect Joke in I Fake Hurry Call i I I With Ambulance Ambulance Ambulance Ready Response lance Is ls Rewarded by Finding Finding Finding Find Find- ing Only Dead Dog With Legs Cut Off Some person with a distorted Idea of what constitutes a practical Joke or 01 the tho meanness of disposition to cause ambulance ambulance- and patrol drivers at police poUce headquarters to risk their lives ivies Grid end those of other persons on the streets when hurry up calls are being bring made was Vas being sought Monday by the police Police officers and railroad officials chis were needlessly roused Monday Monday Mon Mon- day morning when an unknown man telephoned police headquarters tera and said a a. man had both legs lags cut off by a a. switch locomotive and andr r wal dying at Fourth South and Fourth West streets Officers A. A J II t. t no Rogers ers and JuHan Riley made all possible haute haste In reaching nJ the spot with the police ambulance Upon their arrival al they found a II dog with two legs cut off oct The suffering animal had haC al already already nl- nl rend ready been killed by some someone no before before before be be- fore time the officers reached tho scene and careful Inquiry failed to disclose ills dis close any accident that has had be befallen befallen befallen be- be fallen a man Many needless and freak frcak calls are n a dally daily on telephoned Information but the above was vas the second to come from the same vIcInIty vi vicinity vl- vl S Sunday day night Officer W. W E. E Jukes hurried to Fourth South and Seventh Seventh Seventh Sev Sev- West Nest streets ts with the police ambulance to pick up a man whom someone had observed lying dead on the sidewalk and thought it his duty to notify police headquarters Upon Jukes' Jukes a alt althal at the reported spot he found the remains of a slain apparently dead on the sidewalk Any person guilty of maliciously sending hurry calls calls' to police poUce headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters will be severely prosecuted ted police officials declared Tues Tues- day I