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Show NEGRO SAYS HE WHS Jl WRONG To be suddenly awakened from his slumbers at midnight and to And a b g, husky colored man wandering aimlessly about the room was the rather thrilling experience of Road Commissioner Thomas Jones, who re-i re-i sldos on Wall avenue, between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth. Naturally Mr. Jones supposed the ra,aV be a burslar, and he prevented prevent-ed the unwelcome visitor from leaving tho house until Detectives Robert Burko and Robert Chambers arrived. At police headquarters the colored -man said his nume was J. L. Fields arid thai he was a dining car cook. In explanation of his preseuce in Mr. Jones' house, Fields told the offl-cers offl-cers that he had been Imbibing too freely, and, ns he lives onlv a few doorB from Mr. Jones, made tho mistake mis-take of gotting into the wrong house. Fields was still In possession of the unsteady evidonce tbat ho bad been casting shy glances at a bottle of Sloo gin and the police are inclined to bollove his story. |