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Show 0 0t 0i 0CLUB t wmm f ADVENTURERS ' l i h - ' " , CLUB " , . " , 'it it ' . 'itt ( \t t \ \ , , ' 2 2M /M M " Ms / k Mk 'i i ' a 1 s ! 1 , 2 ( C < Ca 2u k . u t : . ' > fl : S , f fl . l\ l li \ . i ay ' Q QS Qt Q"Guns : / t I Id d . .4 4 . } , . - . > "Guns Guns " Guns in tJie the NigJzt Night " By FLOYD GIBBONS GIBBONSFamous GIBBONSFamous GIBBONSFamou Famous Headline Hunter . and acid when a gets In trouble , , gen- gen generllly generally gen-- gen genorally - - rOU U . know t.now tnow , boys girls , , guy.gets guygets guy . YOU YU Y - orally erllly erally : his first thought is 15 : "Boy Boy " , I wish there was a cop coparound coparound coparound around to get me out of this " ? And if there is a cop aroun around ? , , thechances the thechances I Ichances chances are he can get you out of almost any anysort sort of jam in 111 in theworld the thei theworld theworld i . world The police potrce are called on at all hours of the day and mght night nightto , to do everything from straightening out a family argument , to tocatcll1ng tocatching tocatching catcll1ng catching a cat that's thats ' crawled up a tree and won't wont ' come down down.But downBut . . But here's heres ' ' the story ofa of a bunch of bo"s bos boys } " who couldn't couldnt ' callon call on the thecops thecops thecops cops when they got into trouble tr.ouble . In fact , it , was ti \ as the cops who whowere whowere whowere were making mat.ing mating nialJng . b all the trouble for Frank Zappala , and for hl his threeb three threeNot pals palsNot Not tint th'lt thlt that ' Frank rranl bad done anything to deserve all that attention from fromthe fromthe fromthe the New fork York tort , police department . All he was doing wis W"lS WlS was " trying to gct get gctto getto getto to New Jersey . There are some funnv tunnv funny laws Inws on the statute books , I'll Ill I'lladmit I'lladmit ' I'lladmit Illadmit ' ' admit , but there isn't isnt ' an any against going to NeJersey New Ne\\ Ne Nei \ Jersey , so Frank Franl . was wasentirely wasentirely wasentirely entirely entirely1thln within \\1thln 1thln sithtn \ \ Ills his riglits rIghts when wben he lIe tried to dig up the tbe half buck he needed neededto neededto neededto to get thiou thiousb thlOUh di ! : the Holland tunnel . But things were happening around New York , that night , that thatFrank thatFrank thatFrank Frank and his friends didn't didnt ' know about . . Old Lady Adventure Adventurewas Adventurewas Adventurewas and she used the cops for foractors foractors foractors was setting the stage for big dOlngs-and dOlngs and doings-and doings doings - - actors in m the drama she staged with Frank in the leading role role.Frank roleFrank . . rranh Prank and nnd his friends started stnrtcd out one September evening tor for a ride rideIn ridein rideIn In a car that belonged to one of the fello fellows " s ' d'l dl dids dads ' S They hid the car- car carbut carbut ear-but ear but - but doggone little money monev . . There Therp Therpns wis \ns ns \ i'ts its ' only twenty t " enty cents In cash In thewhole the thewhole thewhole whole cro crowd " d , , and nnd they " wanted "anted anted to go 0\ 0 over 0er otter \ er to New Ncw Jersey Jer5ey to see some somefrIends somefriends somefriends frIends they had over there . . Boys Would Rather Be in Jersey-So Jersey So Jersey - So Watch Watch.Going WatchGoing . Going to Jerse Jersey , } , though , , cost fifty cents-tbe cents tbe cents-the the cents - the price of admission to tothe tothe tothe the noil-rod noil rod IIolhnd IIolland - tunnel So Frank suggested snggested thit th\t th t that ' \ one of the otnei othel other lads-a lads a ladsaIfellow ladsafellow lads - afellow Ifellow fellow named Jim-sell Jim sell Jim - sell nn an old dollir doll1r dollar and a half halt watch tint th'lt thlt that ' he c'lrrIed clrrIed carried c'lrrIedJim carriedJim cirrledJim ' : Jim was agreeable agreenble , , and handed over the " watch "atch atch Frank rmnk Prank got out of the thecar thecar thecar car and went looking 1001.ing 1001ing . for a customer for ItI it itThe I The car was parked at the foot of Wall street and it was wasaround wasaround wasaround around 10 30 at night . . Prospective watch buyers were few and andfar , far between As a matter of fact there was only one man In Insight insight Insight sight , and all the dough he had was twenty cents . The boys boysneeded boysneeded boysneeded needed thirty cents , so It was just no saleThe saleThey sale saleThe They The ; , } diove dloe drove , the car down to the tbe Battery attery and tried agiln ag'lln aglln again ' A street streetcle'wer streetcleaner streetcleincr cle'wer clewer cleaner ' " was "as as "oll oll " wciking working mg there , , and nnd they offered ofl'ered oflered ' tlie the " watcli "atch atch watch to him IIe He IIedidn't Hedidn't Hedidn't Hedidnt didn't didnt ' w wint W'lnt Wlnt ' tnt it , but he tailed talhed talked to the boys for a n " while "hlle hlle And then-suddenly then suddenly thensuddenlythings then-su then su then - suddenly suddenlythings en enthings ] -things things - things began to hippen h'l.PIHm hl.PIHm hlPIHm happen happenPolice hippenPolice ' . Police Pollce Speed After Some Wrong-Doer Wrong Doer - . A police cir C"lr Clr car " shot around the corner , siien snen scieiming SCle'tmmg SCletmmg scteaming ' , and sped oIT oft oITdo oftdown oftdown do down " n the ; street ctreet going about sixtv slay sl t , } fi\e fi e fife fh \ e miles an hour . About ten secondslater seconds secondslater secondslater later , another one followed It , going even e\en e en \ faster than the first Both cars carsdlsappe'lred carsdisappeared carsdisappeired dlsappe'lred dlsappelred disappeared ' around another cornel cornet before the boys even had a chance to toget toget toget get a good look 1001 . at them Tlie The street cleaner ran rnn foi fOl fot the coiner to get a alast alast alast last look 1001 " at them t1Iem , and the four boys climbed chmbed back bach into their own cir C'l.r Cl.r Clr car ' . . . $ Y "Don't Dont " ' ' Shoot , Mister-Don't Mister Don't Dont Mister - Don't Dont ' Shoot . . " Jim got In front and took the wheel Frank was in the back backseat backseat backseat seat with a lad named Charlie While Jim was starting the themotor themotor themotor motor , Frank turned to Charlie and said . ' . ' "What What 'IWhat IWhat " luck we've weve ' got gotWe gotWe gotWe We can't cant ' even sell a watch " ' " And then he saw Charlie's Charlies ' hands handsgo handsgo handsgo go up in the air-heard air heard air - heard him hlm cry out : ' "Don't Dont " " ' shoot , mister-don't mister don't dont misterdon'tshooU misterdon'tshoot mister - don'tshoot dontshoot ' ' shooU shoot I ! " Frank sit S"lt Slt sat " sizing g"tzlng gtzlng gazing " , spellbound , , past Charlie and out Into the street streetTwo streetTwo streetTwo Two men were "ere ere " standing st.mdlng stmdlng . there-detectives there detectives there - - detectives , they lool looked ed 1\he-poInting 1 he poInting like-pointing like 1hepoIntings'lwed likepointings'iwed \ like - pointingsiwed s'lwed slwed s'iwed siwed ' ' oft off police poltce rides rUles rifles into mto the back bac1 seit se'lt selt sett ' of the car T Two " 0 uniformed poUce police poUcecame policecame policecame came up then tben , , and one on the detectives etectes ! , opened the door ind 'lnd lnd Wind ' yanked yankedCharlIe yankedCharlie yankedCharlie CharlIe out ot of o the car Anotliei AnothCl Another 1 > poked I ed a rifle Into rrank Prank Franks s ml midriff rIff and andtold andtold andtold told him to climb cl1mb out , too And up ' iheid 'lhe'1d lhe1d ' , the two boys bo , } s in lD tlie the front seat seatwere seatwere seatwere were also being pulled pullcd out onto the pavement Iavement pavementIt ) . . It Begins to Look Like They're Theyre ' Public Publlc Enemies Enemies.By EnemiesBy . By this time there tbere " were "ere ere sere eight policemen pol1cemen and dctecth detectives os clustered clusteredaround clusteredaround clusteredaround around the cir C\f C f car ' \ . . A couple more were Incl Inside ; e , going thiough thlOUgh through It with a fine- fine finetoothed fine-toothed fine toothed - . - toothed comb "Where Where "Wbere Wbere " are the guns ' " ' they asked asled , I rank ranI " * ' Whore Wh re are arethe arethe arethe the other otber two t0 tao t\\ t \ 0 fellow fello'n fellon fello ' , : . b'5 b5 ' ' " ' All four boys said they didn't didnt ' have any guns-didn't guns didn't didnt guns - - didn't didnt ' know knowr knowanything r anything about any two other fellows-but fellows but fellows - - but they couldn't couldnt ' convince convincethe convincethe convincethe the cops A robbery had been committed In the neighborhood neighborhoodand , and these lads answered the description of the men They were werecarted werecarted werecarted carted off to the station house-fingerprinted house fingerprinted house - - fingerprinted , questioned They Theyhadn't Theyhadn't Theyhadn't Theyhadnt hadn't hadnt ' been there long before they realized that they were introublelikely In Introublelikely Introuble trouble-likely trouble likely - likely to be put on trial for a crime they hid hd hWid , no hand In In'Whele inWheie inWheie 'Whele Whele Wheie ' " were "ere ere they when the robbery " was .lS lS . committed9 committed commlttedv ? Tint's Tints Th'l.t's Thl.ts Thlts That's Thats ' . ' ' the thequestion thequestion thequestion question the . .police police .DoUce DoUce . kept asking asL.ing asLing . them And their ans\\ ans answer anser nnsser \ er . 'Parked Parked ' on a acorner acorner acorner corner do\\ do down don dosn \ \ n by the tbe Batters llattelj llatteljto Battery to " \ was as not good enoughStreet enough enoughStreet Street Cleaner Cleans Up Their Slate . Then Frank rrank thought of the stieet sheet street cleaner If the C01J copb cops : ' could only onl ; find findhIm findhim findhim hIm , he could back bach their story stor , . Frank rrank told the detective dttectIve dctectlve captiln capt'lln captlln captain ' , , and andtbe andthe andthe tbe the captain cnpt.lln cnptlln . sent a man out to bring him in lie He got there about fifteen fifteenminutes fifteen fifteenminutes fifteenminutes minutes liter hter later . . " "Did Did "Dld Dld " you ever sec see these boys before ? ' the detectives askedhim askedhim asked askedhim him"Sure him"Sure him him"Sure "Sure Sure " I did , " he replied "I I " was talking to them for twentyminutes twentyminutes twenty twentyminutes minutes , just before the police cars came shooting around thecorner thecorner the thecorner corner . " An And that was . all .111 111 the cops wanted to know . But for a Inlf h'llf hllf half ' hour bour or so , it soIt theheinous sure looked lool"ed looled " to Frank rranl as a'3 a3 ' though thou11 . ; four guvs guys gu S \ wcie were ele eoing going to jail for tb the heInous crime cruue of trying tr liio ln6 to get to Jcisey Jelsey Jersey Cltj C1ty CltjW'JU Cit . i -W'JU W'JU WJU iWNU @ - -WNU WNU - WNU ' Ser Senlcs Sen ice lc . |