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Show I - 'Sergeant Murphy ( When Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner of, New York city he took a warm Interest In his stenographer, to young Irish girl who was helping to support a large family, In spite of Iter alarming mistakes In spelling, syf Mrs. Corlnne Roosevelt 'Robinson. In her book, "My Brother Theodore Roose-jvelt," Roose-jvelt," he could not bear to dismiss her. II always bad to look over her manuscript man-uscript and correct it, and he laughingly laugh-ingly remarked that It was well that he did.- Once be dictated the follow- "inf sen fence In connection with a certain cer-tain policeman: "I was obliged to restrain the virtuous ardor of Sergeant Murphy, who in his efforts to bring .about a state of quiet on the streets 'would frequently commit some assault ?hlmself'; but the stenographer in 'transcribing spelled "some assault" 'somersault.'' and, as the commissioner commission-er remarked, you bad to laugh at the thought of Murphy's turning somersaults somer-saults In the middle of a crowded .street Youth's Companion. |