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Show oo UNDERTAKER I MADE HIM SICK Arthur Rook, charged with vagrancy, vagran-cy, blamed all his misfortunes on his brother, who is an undertaker in Chicago. Chi-cago. When asked by Judge Reeder this morning why he left his home to come west and go broke, Rook hesitated hes-itated and then convulsed the court room by stating: vvell, judge, my brother is an undertaker un-dertaker and after isiting the morg-lu" morg-lu" where he was operating I got so I could not hke him and could not eat where he was." Rook was arrested after begging I from Dr E M Conroy and Peter An-Ideraon An-Ideraon and he explained in court tn I : morning that h became desperate for something to eat He said he had made the rounds of the employment I offices and had tried to secure work at private houses, but without success : Judge Reeder gave him a suspend-I suspend-I ed sentence. nn . |