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Show I FAKE DETECTIVES "TAKE" WILLIE FOR FIVE PLUNKS SPRINGFIELD, Ilk Folks, meet "Willie" Gross of Russell county, Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Although little Willie is 18 years old ho never saw a policeman, or rather a detective, until ho camo to the great capital oZ Illinois. And then -his first experience wltn the detective was not what you might call real. As ho sauntered) up and down the street with his six feet two inches he was approached ap-proached by two pompous appearing persons of tho male sex. "You're under arrest," they told ,.-lie, ,.-lie, who groaned In surprise as tho men backed him into a door. One displayed a tin shlold like regular officers wear. The other hiked down me street. While he was gone the one with the star got confident to "William. "Aw, say," he said. "I don't liko to do this. I wouldn't either if" I wen, winic greaseu ma paiiu wnu n five-spot note and was free. But when he got away ho didn't like it a bit, so he decided to go down to tho jail and see what it wa3 they had against him. "Nothing," they told him. Then WI1-! lie explained he had never seen a detective de-tective before. Now Willie Is mad all over and he and the polico are looking for the "moonsnine runners." |