| Show Police Officers s Come to Grief GriefIn In Il Chase After Swimming Boys A scene that would sho hoel k the natives c was presented alon along the banks of or the theS Jordan river near Second South and Thirteenth Thir Thir- Ve West t streets strain Bunda Sunday afternoon when tho the patrol wagon hove In sight benton bent benton on capturing about a n score of or youthful swimmers who whore who're vere re enjoying them themselves elve In the tine v water with no more mort clothes on than nature handed banded them at birth Some of ot tho time residents of ot that sparsely settled neighborhood telephoned td the fact to police the headquarters the fact Tact that mo most t of the boys bos of or the neighborhood and some somo others were others were swimming In the tho nude nue and the they wc ver 3 of or the tine opinion that the peace and dignity of or their part of or tho Ume city was disturbed thereby The Tho patrol wagon was Wall sent out from headquarters b Horn Horn- manned maimed by Sergeant pel Officers Howells Hilton and Harris Haul nn and Driver George Moore And they went prepared d to 10 make malce a Q great haul The boys boy were yelling splashing and enjoying them themselves as aa only boys boy can One Ono of or u tIme I tarts hals on the bank saw the menace carried l by the onrushing patrol wagon and spread the alarm And Anul then thon on one should have seen th the Naked t with h shoes J and stockings in one hand the rest roat of or their clothes clothe In the other oLber some of th n with their headgear In place started for Cor the I wilds They went through swamp amp hand Jand and 0 over 01 1 little canals ls In iii their mad flight for tor safety ty They y grabbed whatever cl tile they S saw whether It belonged to them or not I I and flew Th The banks were rid of ot all wearing apparel when the officers sprang from the tue wagon and started In pursuit The officers taken on the run run dubbed the time flying squadron for tor their Bl sn ed nearly doubled with laughter when they saw the tile havoc oc they thy had created A few lev o of of time the lads were wera slow lo Ia starting and Serg nt at took after one ont of or them lInt Jut ft e ie sergeant sera stepped on a slippery log hog on th tills bank and 11 he lie came to grief H He It toppled over Ino Info the river and went Into water anil anU mud munch nearly nt-arly to his hili hip hips That was the time climax It If tho the officers had hall any desire alre to take aft alter after r the I w. w they lout it U then therm Sergeant Sergent Hempel couldn't see Ie tile the Joke for a f few tw w minutes minute but later lator pulled himself from vera rom th the water and anti quit jutt lie He had had hud enough h. I gu guess ss those bo hoi boy will h have he e n a lesson leuon he said and started for tor th the prot protecting sides of ot the patrol was wagon wh where re h he bitt lii himself When at a r rt distance the boys stopped and anti dressed drue meanwhile hurling derision I at the tue nonplused police po officer orne Thus the g great at campaign against n a Iro crowd of or mere rove boys come canoe to naught and tho the thoo o ff rii returned to Salt It lAI Lake c empty empty- handed |
