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Show 1 hUuot 15 FOND OF MOTORCARS Chewing of Detective's Car Wins New Summons for License-less License-less Peddler. New York. Were all the horses In New York endowed with the genius that characterizes Nero, who works for Maurice Kelly, peddler, there would be fewer motorcars about. Detective Walter J. Coffey Is attached at-tached to the Oak Street station. Because Be-cause he lives in Flatbush he employs a flivver to ride to duty. The other night he parked the flivver fliv-ver in front of the Oak Street station house. Right here is where Nero, peddler's horse, comes In. He was parked a few minutes later directly back of the flivver. Endowed with the identical passion that prompted his namesake to burn Rome, and propelled, perhaps, by a Commenced to Tear the Loathvr Out whim to Institute general war against the machines that have all but put him and his likes out of business, Nero commenced to tear the leather out of Officer Coffey's car with his teeth and to scatter upholstery amid the snowflakes. This process continued until Nero was spied from the window by Officer Coffey. What Officer Coffey said to Nero is not recorded. Neither is any mention made of the speech which Officer Coffey made to Peddler Kelly when he arrived five minutes later. In the course of this harangue, however, how-ever, it became a matter of suspicion to the detective that Kelly, who lives at No. 918 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, was plying his trade without a license. Here, Indeed, was heart balm ! Officer Offi-cer Coffey handed Peddler Kelly a summons. And as the two men mounted mount-ed their respective vehicles, preparatory prepara-tory to altered parking arrangements, a third dissertation delighted the ears of the bystanders. This one was addressed by Peddler Kelly to his horse. |