Show WAITING FOR THE END green policeman s naive explanation to his chief there was appointed to the police force of pawtucket about a dozen years ago a well known german rest dent at that time there was no pa arol signal or telephone system and officers on their beats were obliged to communicate with police head by telephone at the nearest drug store bright and early one monday morn ing the new german policeman report ed for duty and was assigned to the pleasant view district he had hard ly mastered the english language and when he got excited the language was broken into small pieces along toward noon the officer was called to a house on mis beat where a man had committed suicide by hang ing he viewed the suspended boby and was as much frightened as any ol 01 those who had gathered one of the woman neighbors expressed the that the man was probably not de and it would be a good idea to him down as she expressed it the new police officer by this tir thoroughly rattled ran from the hou and sought the nearest drug he got into communication 1 telephone with the police station tl chief answered the call and aft learning what the officer had seen quiren have you cut the man doar no he ain t dead yet ansden the excited voice at the other end the line |