Show wafe 0 W fr adventurers CLUB e I 1 guns in the he night by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter OU know boys and girls when a guy gets in trouble gen yarally brally his first thought is boy I 1 wish vish there was a cop around to get me out of this and if there is a cop around the chances are he can get you out of almost any sort of jam in the world the police are arc called on at all hours of the day and night to do ever everything y thing 1 from straightening out a family argument to catching a cat crawled up a tree and wont come down but heres the story of a bunch of boys who call on the cops when they got into trouble in fact it was the cops who were making all the trouble for frank and for his three pals not that frank had bad done anything to deserve all that attention from the new york pollee police department all he was doing was trying to get to new jersey there are arc some tunny funny laws on the e statute books ill admit but there any against going to new jersey so frank was entirely within his rights when he tried to dig up tile the halt bucl buck he needed to get through the holland tunnel but things were happening around new york that night that frank and his friends know about old lady adventure was setting the stage for big doings and she used the cops for actors in the drama she staged with frank in the leading role frank and his friends started out one september evening for a ride in a car that belonged to one of 0 the fellows dads they had the car but dorgone doggone little money there was only twenty cents in cash in the whole crowd and they wanted to go over to new jersey to see some friends they had over there boys would rather be in jersey so watch going to jersey though cost fifty cents the price of admission to the holland olland II tunnel so frank suggested that one of the other lads a fellow named jim sell an old dollar and a halt half watch that he carried jim was agreeable and handed over the watch vatch frank got out of the car and went looking for a customer for it the car was parked at the foot of wall street and it was around 1030 at night prospective watch buyers were few and far between As a matter of fact there was only one man in sight and all the dough he had was twenty cents the boys needed thirty cents so it was just no sale they drove the car down to the B battery and tried again A street cleaner was working m there and they offered the watch to him he want it but lie he talked to the boys for a while lille and then suddenly things began to happen police speed after some wrongdoer wrong doer A police car shot around tile the corner siren screaming and sped ote oft down the street going about sixty five miles an hour about ten seconds later another one followed it going even faster than the first both cars disappeared around another corner before the boys even had a chance to get a good look at them the street cleaner ran for the corner to get a last look at them and the four boys climbed back into int 0 their own car I 1 V dont shoot mister dont shoot jim got in front and took the wheel frank was in the back seat with a lad named charlie while jim was stir starting ting the motor frank turned to charlie and said what luck weve got we cant even sell a hatchl and then he saw charlies hands go up in the air heard him cry out dont shoot mister dont shoot frank sat gazing spellbound past charlie and out into the street two men were standing there detectives they looked like pointing sawed oft off police rifles into the back seat of the car two uniformed pollee police came up then and one on the detectives opened the door and yanked charlie out of the car another poked a rifle into franks rul midriff driff and told him to climb out too and up ahead the two boys in the front seat were also being pulled out onto the pavement it begins to look like public enemies by this time there were eight policemen and detectives clustered around the car A couple more were inside going through it with a fine toothed comb where are the guns they asked frank whre where are the other two fellows all four boys said they have any guns know anything about any two other fellows but bul they convince the cops A robbery had been committed in the neighborhood and these lads answered the description of the men they were carted off to the station house fingerprinted questioned they been there long before they realized that they were in trouble likely to be put on trial for a crime they had no hand in where were ere they when the robbery was committed the question the police kept asking them and their answer parked on a corner do down n by the battery was not good enough street cleaner cleans up their slate then frank thought of the street cleaner it if the cops could only find him he could back their story frank told the detective captain and the captain sent a man out to bring him in lie he got there about fifteen minutes later did you ever see these boys before the detectives asked him sure I 1 did he replied 1 I was talking to them for twenty minutes just before the police cars came shooting around the corner and that was all tile the cops wanted to know but for a halt half hour or so it sure looked to frank as though four guys were going to jail tor for the beinous liel nou crime of trying to get to jersey city 0 Ber service vico |