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Show WAS GIVING AWAY HIS MONEY A $10 hill handed to one messen-er messen-er boy. a $0 bill to another and a third lad in search of the spendlhrit t, was the occasion for murh activity on Twenty-fourth street, near Wall avenue, this morning. l.Tiimo'l lately - following this came-. tho advice to the pillce station that there was a crazy man on lower Twenty-fourth street trying to butt his brains out on a telephone polo An officer was dispatched to the scene and when he reached the spot found none other than Fred Hawkins In a happy stnte .f drunkenness. Hawkins was brought to the station nnd placed in one of the cells for a sobering To the desk sergeant, Fred said his name is Frederick Stanford Hawkins, son of a senator, "when my hair Is parted In the middle" He said he was happily drunk and had beeu hav-Ing hav-Ing a little fun with the messenger boys and. Incidentally, making ani'ise-ment ani'ise-ment for tb neighborhood by offering a few circus stunts on a tele-phone pole, but. said he. "If anybody thinks I am crazy they are making long guesses." It was said by the officers that Fred had given one messenger boy a $10 bill, to show be was a good fellow. fel-low. A third bey, healing of the "easy money," was maklntr haste to form the acquaintance of Fred when the officer of the law appeared |