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Show EXCITEMENT DURING IE ARREST OF A DRUNKEN MAI Waller Reed, a well known character charac-ter In the police court, was the main actor in a rough house during the noon hour today and as a result he is languishing In the city bastile. The trouble occurred at the Smithsonian Smith-sonian Business college and was started by Reed, who had a fighting "jag" on, insulting a woman,' named Mrs. Coates who lives on tho second floor of the college building. The woman's husband heard the insult to his wife and threw Reed downstairs and followed up his advantage by getting on top of tho drunken man when ho reached the hallway between the schoolrooms. Several of tho students, who saw the fight, ran to tho residence of Professor J. A. Smith, dean of the college, and told him that two men were trying to "murder" each other. The professor ran to tho school and going inside where the melee was in progress, pulled the man on top away from his opponent and forced him outside. When the man got up, he turned out to be the lodger and Professor Pro-fessor Smith then went back In to got the other fellow. In tho meantime, Reed had gone Into one of tho schoolrooms school-rooms and started to wreck things generally. The schoolmaster, however, howev-er, got a good hold on ,hlm and started start-ed 'him. still struggling, out of the building and then toward the street, but was forced to "down" him once before they arrived in front of College Col-lege court. When they finally got to the street, Mr Smith went into phone for the police and Reed made a dash down the street for a short distance and around to the rear of the P. C. Richardson company's feed store. Patrolman Blackburn and Chauffeur Guy Nelson answered Prof. Smith's call and the patrolman, after a search, found Reed in the Richardson barn, buried In the hay, The man wae taken to the station, still in an ugly, fighting mood. He was booked on the charge of disturbing the peace. During the struggle at the college an excited crowd assembled that did not disburse until after the patrol drove away with the prisoner. |