The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1904, Page 3

‘ \ ‘ ? rs +e Man Shows Alleged Black Hand Letters and Says Threats Had Been Made to Kidnap a , Piclon that Stravalli SAY HE BLEW UP HSMN SHOP Joseph Stravaili Arrested on Return to Wrecked Place Insurance with Two Fire Policies in His Pockets. FAMILY ABSENT AT . TIME OF EXPLOSION, His Children, ‘The barber shop of Joseph Stravalli, at No, 417 Third avenue, was blown up with dynamite to-day, Stravalll ta under arrest, his dotention being or- dered by Deputy Fire Marshal Herman De Malignon, opn picion’’ of hi fng vaused the explosion, ‘The explosion, in addition to wreck- ing the barber shop and setting the building on fire, endangered the lives Of 4 score of persons residing in the bullding, One little girl was severely fajured tn the pante that followed it, Stravalli first’ made complaint of threatening letters on Aug. 16 last, when he took two letters to Capt. Shire, of the East Thirty-tifth street station, and used them as the basis of a demand for @ pistol permit. He told it, Bhire then that & gang was after him, but that with a pistol he would be amply able to care for himself. He sald he wanted no police help says permiss'on to carry # pistol, wat Mo * Pellegrino Stravellt Detective Brady, investigated Stra- valli's story and reported that there was Rothing In tt, He said he believed the man was bluffing. Nevertheless a pistol permit was issued to him. A few days later Siravalli complaine? that an at tempt had been made to kidnap his son, | After that he kept all of his children ine doors, Polleles in His Pockets, Btravalli told the police when first arrested that he had been in a neigh- toring saloon gambling during the @vening, and that he was In this sa- Joon when the explosion occurred, Stravalll runs twe barver shops, and his wife and seven children lived in Tooms in the rear of the shor that was | blown up, He carried $1,900 insurance, $1,600 on the shop and $400 on the household ef. | fects in the living rooms in the rear, When arrested he had the Insurance Pollcles with shim, as well as his cectitt: ¢ate from the State Barber Boara, The explosion occurred ghortly after midnight. ‘The front of the shop was blown out, and the side wall between the shop and the stairway was knocked down, The place Immediately caught fire and the smoke rolled up through te hallway in dense clouds. travall’s mastiff, which slept in the shop was killed, ite head Out Into the street. pans The fire was easily extinguished and the police and Fire Marshal began gn investigation Stravall! returned home about 4 o'sloce and Ware !mmediately arrested, He at first sald he could net r ould Hosa ther read later was induced { write his name, He wrote Ine tremb- ling hand “Peregreen Stravallj. Family Abvent Last Night The further the potice ( A goes the deeper becomes the manent ee the police sug. nows more of explosion than he has od, is cig ey Liebernatte, who keeps a Srocery store on the ground floor of 8 Bast Twenty-ninth street, the police learned to-day that Mrs, Straval!, and her geven chi m appeared at T o'clock Sunday evening ahd” auld et, were going to stay w Maria Stella, Mrs, Stravalli's sister, who lives in the house, because they had lost the key to thelr own home. The key was Jost on Friday, the woman said, Stra- valli told phe police ¢ key Sunday afternoon. Martina Sravel! ald that | wae i Nerom Joneph_ M rom Joseph Mus'tin and Johu ¢; tpevad!’s two barbers, the sites learned that Btravelll told them to go off and have a er time yesterday. ‘These men usually sleep ip the rear LITLE MOTE VON CIN Brooklyn Policeman Finds Elev- en-Year-Old Girl Bravely Shielding Baby Sister in Shel- ter of a Dark Hallway. | WAITS RY HOUSEHOLD GOODS ALL IN VAIN — With Two Tiny Brothers She! and Baby Charge Are Now Happy with Children’s So- ciety. Huddied together on a doorstep in Luqueer street, Brooklyn, last night, a Dale-faced little girl of eleven, holding | a her arms a sobbing child of three, | ‘Was discovered by Policeman McMahon “I am Martha O'Connell, of No, & Luqueer street, and this is my sister Esther, We hunting our papa Please help us to find him for we have been turned out of our home and baby Esther is so tired and hungry,” she Said plead'ngly. The little mother did not complain of | herself, but Polleeman McMahon hur- ried the two exhausted children to the Hamilton avenue police station, When he returned to his beat he was ap- proached by a woman who told him that two boyd were sleeping In a hall- way at No, @& McMahon found two ttle fellowr behind a lot of cheap furniture a ead picture of disposses- sion, Society Takes Tots in Charge. The youngsters, who were Johy and Michael O'Connell, aged eight and seven, were carried to the station, where they were greeted by Martha and Esther, Now the little mother and her family, who have been taken in charge of the Children's Society, ar having the best times in thelr Ii “It only our mamma was here we would be so happy,” sald Martha. The mother who Is an invalid, was taken to the Long Island College Hospital two weeks ago, and since that time Martha has been the real little mother of the family ‘My papa Is Edward O'Connell,” she said, “and he hasn't had very gocd luck lately, He canes chairs and mends awn- ings, and sometimes he would bring home 2% cents, and other timea atx cents, Then we always had something ‘© eat, but most of the time we didn't have anything to eat as all. © didn't mind, but baby Esther didn't under- stand, and she would cry.” Threatened with Eviction, Last week was a very hard one and to add to the trouble of the little fam- Lou" PAYN GREETING Tim” woopRuFF IN COTTAGE ROW, SARATOGA , aT 10.24 AM 0 BOY TEST ‘LL CRNOFATHER Young Edwin Dennis Repays Years of Sacrifice with a Bullet and Then Turns the’ Pistol on Himself. | MILD REBUKE THE CAUSE OF ATTEMPT TO MURDER. Although Only Eighteen, He Has Spent the Last Three Years in Dissipation—All Efforts to Reform Him Failed. Mt ' STUDIES OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS NOW IN SARATOGA. PPODOD40G8OOND1844-0-DG144 O.044000-40.55-4. HAS STORMOUND Five Aboard Bridgeport Craft Spent Four Nights Off Long| Island While Dodging Gales on the Sound, A bullet fired with murderous intent | was all the reward waich the doting grandfather of Edwin Dennis, a bad gence and sacrifice, insoired by the boy's disrespectful trea ment of his mother, almost cost Will- tam H, Mesler, an aged man of wealth, who lives on Richmond avenue, Spring- vilie, 8. 1, his life, The boy had just enough decency lett In him after his attempt at murder to turn his pistol on himself, He fired a bullet In his left breast, but it went above the heart, and although a bad injury & was sald at the Smith Infirm: ary, at New Brighton, where he ts a |! patient to-day, that he will probably get well, Dennis's attack of his old grand- father wi the culmination of three years of, dissipation. Since he was fifteen the boy had been unmanageabl Every effort in his behalf by his loving mother and fond grandfather was wast ed, He preferred wild companions, nights and general shiftiessness work and a clean life, and when hs mother refused to make deeper inroads in her lttle fortune for him to con- tinue his spendthrift career he resented it with a pistol Says Father Is Dead. Dennis's father was an expert t graph operator in the Stock Exchang in this borough, He dled four ar ago, leaving his wife $10,00) of Insurance money, Shortly afterward the widow gave up her home in New Jersey and went to live with her father, who fi retired merchant at Springville, Mother and grandfather were alike in thelr fondness for the boy. He was the only son, the only grandson, and he was indulged in everything. No per- formance was so bad that it wasn't speedily forgiven. He was constant in this demands for money and usually got it, Several weeks ago Mr. Mesler decided to call to ily they were threatened with d session. Friday night Martha took tie children and went to a friend's house to stay all night, but In the morning she was told that she could remain | there no longer, With her little flock she returned home only to fad two strange men carrying out thelr small lot of household belong’ Until last night the childrea watched beside thelr household goods. Saturday night the father returned and said he would g) hunt for a new home. They waited patiently until last night, Then Martha and Es | for their father Policorsane tt to hunt discovered them tas they were suc- cumbing to exhaustion This morning Martha the possession of a enitdren vi ke t e until the Charities Departmen ais m committed to # home, The father not been seen. DORA CALLAHAN FREE. happy In ew dress given § Boclety. " The foom, where the explosion occurred. ‘They returned at midnight find Nae Bchillings whe irs. Schilling, who keeps a bake: @tore next door to Stravel Ps shop, wold the police to-day that about midnight last night she heard some one mov around the barber shop, she heard @ man come out and shut the door, She did not see the man. Stravalll was arraigned in the York- ville Court late this afternoon and held fn $600 bail Fis examination Toursday strate Cornell refused? to permit it. Detective Petrosino announced eourt that his investigation of the n showed it was caused by | wader, to which a fuse had been The fuse was soaked In ker- to Late arrested yesterday cn suspleion of being |} connected with the death of William F, MacLe igton Hotel, at |», avenue, early yesterday mornin, was discharged to-day by Magistrate Barlow in the West Side Gourt. The evidence fatied to show her in any way responsible for the man's death. ‘The woman had occupied the samo room with MacLeon at the I. the night before he died. His death believed to have been due to heart failure, —— Read the elawified advertians milage be He vuged at for mhutting off his funds and vowed revenge, hmt0 be hack tor dinner, him to a 5 that he would come back when he Teed, and It war roiled in, Li unsteady on his feet. [a blaze of indignation. | the boy's room the grandfather ordered Mi4_ Dennis downstairs and proceeded % pulled pistol £ hi jenly pulled a pistol from his pocket and fired it at the old man. The bullet entered Mr. Mesier's right cheek and ington inflicted a painful but not dangerous ls) wound. Dennis then turned the piato) on himself and evidently meant to kill himself, but he was not a good shot. a halt, He told the voy that he would t to go to school and learn some- ring or re out In the world and shift f. He suggested a busin forage and Dennie agreed t0 £0 10 ONC | houre by the quick action of Policeman | Place this week, nd study. (i ith The clan gathered at Tammany Hall He attended the business college for| Goldman In forming a tourniquet with | cing white Fedora hats and blue few days and began to absent fimecit without the knowledge of his ped togethe: ery cent ing to beat t the herse races. result. As he lost m: for # fresh supply became more tant. We was mapidly getting away with his mot: little hoard when Mr. elser discovered what was going on and refused to allow the mother to in- ex t his grand. no_money. leeping and \ grandfather but getting is mother ani esterday, afteriioon when left home Mis mother beg, He rey qa 8 o'clock when he finally Spoke Harshiy to His Mother, 4 been drinking and was a little ine at his treatment, and Mr. Mesier, fcllowed lowed ‘iim upstairs to his room, sores if mn 0 give Dennis a good talking to, “Shut and mind your own buat- ald the boy. Mr, Mesier raised his hand to strike Ingrate, when the fellow sud. ——— Read the classified advertinc- ati. | mente On pages 18 and 13, Therd ments on pages 12 and 18, There was pandemonium in the Yaunch Zolfo, and the latter's wife on board, boy of eighteen, got for years of indul- | into the narbor early to-day A alight rebuke, |!n@ beer held on Long Island shore | since Thuraday evening by # series of but another storm forced the remained util wer, compelled to make their meals off canned goods on board the launch and sleep for three nights with little or no shelter, had become slarmed at his prolonged absence, out with a steamer to-day snd search tha Long Island shore for aim and his party. LEG CUT OFF BY , Policeman Twists Leather About| Ninth avenue trolley car at Toirty-first street just after midnight, an unidenti- fled man had his Iife prolonged a few geon Church, In front of which the man was run ov the Roman Catholic faith to the sup- posed dying man. man Timothy Donohue, struck the man as he was trying to cross Ninth avenue. Policeman Goldman, who was near, says) Donohue, after running over the man, | pean teat GAS EXPLODES; THREE HIIRT, Mra, Georgo Kooh’s apartment at No. 28 Lenox avenue, yesterday afternoon, | and bruised. Gaston Koch, her son, sit- ting by the dining table in the adjoin- ing room, was thrown from his chair and his arm cut by fragments of a |donen tumblers on the table that were BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept, 12. with Willlam Robt his wife and daughter, and R. F. Kolb storms. The party left here Thursday after- noon for Oyster Bay and intended to return Friday, Shortly after leaving the harbor a severe thundersiorm broke and the party-gut into Lloyd's Neck on the Long Island shore, where they were compelled to remain overnight. Saturday morning an attempt was made to cross the Sound to this cit: party into Huntington Harbor, where they yesterday afternoon, when a start was made for home. Although at no time tn serious dan- the members of the party were Relatives of Mr, Robinson in this city and it was Intended to start +. CR, VICTIM DES Leg of Injured Man and Prompt Action Prolongs Life of Victim a Few Hours, His leg cut off above the knee under a wisting it so tight about the stump aa to check the flow of blood. | charged with stealing $3,000 from Geo: | sults, flags were presented to each, PARTY 1N LAUNCH ACCUSES MAN OF STEALING $3,000 Jerseyman Arrasted in Brooklyn on Charge of Robhing Board- ing-House Keeper—Seek Sup- posed Woman Accomplice, Anton Micherlinus, of No, 54 Straight Street, Paterson, N, J., was arraigned in the Adams Street rt to-day, Karaschoft, of No, 713 Hyde Point ay nue, West Hoboken. Micherlinus was held until extradition papers could be made out. The police are now looking for & woman who is belleved to have helped Micherlinua in the job, Apout @ month ago Micherlinys called Pe gated woo Keeps @ boarduiy- house, With him was a woman whom his wife he introduced wished to ha choff's As nt ont woman talked about opening a board- ing-house of her own. 8 several hundreds of dollare rolls and lived accordingly, K agreed to go into a boarding-ho nership with the woma ‘Karaschowt Arew $3,000 from the bank Jast week and showed the money to the woman, He says she knew where te put it, and that was the last of the money, When he went to look for it nit Was Rone, As Was the woman Micherlinus, when he called at the house, left an address in Grand street. ‘here the police found him and locked him up. In his pockets were $100 and some pawn tickets. One of the bills was in the $10 denomination, the same as all those aicn Karaschoff got from the tank ere also were ihree pin-holo taarks which Karaxchoff professes to have put there, Micherlinus then was taken and locked up, OQ EAGLES START FOR BALTIMORE Fraternal Order Led by Con- gressman “Tim” Sullivan, Will Attend Its Seventh An- nual Convention. Four hundred members of the Fra- ternal Order of Eagles, led by Congress- man Timothy D. Sullivan, departed to- day for Baltimore where the seventh Annual convention of the Order takes Canes bearing small American Headed by the Sixty-ninth Regiment ‘While the policeman did duty as a sur- Father Gleason, of St. Michael's dministered the last rites of The trolley car, in charge of Motor-) id not bring his car to a stop for somo | distance, and declares he believes the motorman tried to get away. A crowd gathered ond began to mutter things about the motormen’s ection, Donohue was arrested, An explosion of gas in the kitchen of juried her across the room, stunned a hattered, and his sister, Re Koch, fainted when she heard the explosion | dred Fighth avenue for over twelve years, was found dead In hia bed to-day at | his home, No, #1 West One Hundred | Hubert, 9 liveryman an Twenty-sixth street by his mother, | OOBDELD1NGGIOD SRPTEMBER 12, 1904, PPLOOSPTISID POSS NGOEIED Dd) EDEOOEDDOD IDOE THIEDD 109 BGG O9GOS90409-0800-6-6 49040906 EERPODPDADDDOROE DI DIDI E1IGDODD 19489409 EDD EDD “sim ‘ sg WOODRUFES WILL NOT GIVE UP ADOPTED Mrs, Bertha Natino, Etradition Papers, | MOTHER OBJECTS TO GIRL GOING ON STAGE, Prisoner Says She Will Not Re- Tot, In Horses’ Path, Escapes’ linquish Possession of Child) Unhurt—Widow of Heroic Unless Legally Compelled to! Do So—Attorney Seeks Bail. Mrs, Bertha Natino, of No, 188 Rerk- ley place, Boston, Mass, who waa ar- | Fested last night on a charge of kid- mano, of No, 10 Third street, was ar- fom thirty days to awalt the arrival of extradition papers from Massachusetts, where, it ts alleged, she is der in- dictment on the same charge. According to Mrs, Natino, she has had the child for the past five years and has given {t a good home, where It has | been cared for as though it were hor own, Mr. Natino Is said to be promt- nent In Boston, belng the general man- ager of the New England Artificial Limb Compan* at No. 7 Park Square, lin that city, Legal adoption papers wore never taken ont, but both Mr, and Mrs, Natino aver that they will go to the extreme of the law to keep the girl, who has become very dear to them and whom they are much better able to keep than the child's own mother, who | has several to care for, Mot De Chi Mrs. Romano, the complainant, sa!d she had never surrendered her rights to the child, She simply allowed Mrs. Natino to bring the child up, she said, and was perfectly satisfied with its ‘care until March 9 last, when she learned that the chiki was appearing in a play called “Drink” at the Bow- | doin Square Theatre, In Boston, under the name of Carroll Natino. | On learning this, Mrs, Romano says that she fent to the theatre and de- manded her child, but that she was turned out of the house, She then ap- plied to the Grand Jury, and procured an indictment against Mrs. Natino, on the grounds of kidnapping. r tino then left Boston, she says, and two weeks ago she learned that her child's foster mother was in New York visit- CHILD Charged with Kidnapping, Held With- out Bail Until the Arrival of FIREMAN YIELD Company, Dies as Result o Successful Effort to Save Gir from Death. /CRUSHED BY ENGINE HE SUDDENLY SWERVED, from Shock of Sad News. a The hody of Peter 8. Clark, a driver the | of Engine Company No. 12, of Brooklyn Fin Department, who on Sat- Happing eight-year-old Caroline Ro-| Uday night overturned his engine while mano, daughter of Mrs. Caroline Ro.|4f¥ing to a fire in order to save a himself fataily | ralgned in the Tombs Court today and | (TUShed. was taken to the Clark home held by Magistrate Mayo without bait| {0-04 The dead man's wife ts in a serious condition from the shock caused | Ife and was | by learning that her husband had been mortally hurt, She was standing at the! | sate of thelr home waiting for him when the news was brought to her. | Clark was piloting his engine through Graham avenue, and when he neared the corner of Frost street a little girl ranin front of the galloping horses, She | stood petrified with fear apd unable to | move from their path. Clark saw that | only a herole effort would save the child's life and he swung the horses | around with all his strength, toppling the engine over on its side, As the en- wine went over Clark fell under the wheels and was horribly crushed, He was taken to the Eastern District Hoa- pital where he died yesterday, ‘The brave fireman was forty-five years old and had been in the depart- ment twelve years, He was due to go home to lia dinner five minutes after the call came that was his last drive to a fire, and his wife waited expectantly for nim at their home, No. 212 Jackson street. His mangled body was borne in an. ambulance When Mrs. Clar! occupant was Clark will have a fireman's funeral on alle Chureh. left_no childreh. Engine Company No. 18 |s looked upon as a hoodoo company tn the de- |partment, Five ars ago an engine toppled over while going to a fire and crushed a fireman named Henry Hillen he sued the olty, vering $16,000 dam~ es, Later he was appointed a tele graph operator in Fire Headquarters, and on Aug. 3 last be committed sui- cide. The child whose life Clark saved at the sacrifice of his own disappeared during the excitement and the police have been tinable to learn her identity, ing friend: * came to this city, and alter a long search located her and compassed her arrest. | Child Acts Just for Fan, ! ‘Mr, Natino denied that the child had tver appeared In a theatrical oroduction for money. | “Caroline Is a very bright ¢ she | sald to the Magistrate, “and for amu Rand the Eagles marched down Fourth Avenue along the Bowery and thence to Broadway. A boat was waiting at the foot of Liberty street to cohvey them to Jersey City, where a special train wes ready to tyke them to Baltimore Among those In line were: State Se aor Thomas F. Grady, President of the New York Aerie; Congressmen William Salzer and Goldfogle, Judges Henry Me- Carthy and Herman Joseph, and 41 the officers of the local aerte. | Although the friends of Congressman Sullivan are anxious for him to succeed himself as Worthy Grand President the order, sirous of another t and political life exa ot resaman is not de- His busingss oe muce of bie the i* mother o «time. He believes also in the one-term thim wry he had failed tobe home for | ¢Athgthe inured mane clothing wes principle and Is willing to give some for Death of \dirner. He told her it was none of her | Sound Ag cnvelipemn wilen, was the ed. one else the honor - 4 | business: that when fe him money | ree oon nee tourth atrect ‘ie Most of the members of the New WO, of No./she might expect conalceration from! aig a tew houre after in the hosoital, | York aerie are in favor of Alderman 1M Went Thirty-fourth street, who was | lm, bit not before. The mother fol- ody, of Buffalo, ar Concressmas en's successor, Pris: OVEREATING CAUSES DEATH, Dead on nda Newsdeal ft Benjamin twenty-three year 14, who kept A newsstand at One Hun- and Twenty-ftth street and! Dr. Cox, of No. S31 St. Nicholas ave- | » sald Fine bad died from heart and the screams of her mother. Thero Uitte, Teatting trom ‘overeating. Ie | building gntil attended a festival in honor of t! the cause othe | jewish New Year, filled aol and then he it, Constable John Buhle imaelt bers recelved no warrant tor ‘s arrest. ~ NN i ee te ale ment has often gone on in amateur per- formances, Bhe Ald appear in ‘Drink.’ but not a cent was to be pald to her It was simply amusement for her.” Counsel for Mrs. Matino said the only reason Mra, Romano wanted the child was because she believed she was mak- ing money. He also declared that he was going before the Supreme Court| this afternoon to procure a writ 9f habeas corpus to compel tre granting | of ball to Ne clfent. os | BOY AUTO VICTIM DEAD, | leur of Machine Which Hit Lad Prostrated by Kinlt MINEOLA, L. 1, Sept. 12~ Townsend Hubert, the nine-year-old boy who was struck by 4.2 avtomoblle on the Jericho turnpike here on Saturcay afternoon Ated last night in the Sassou County Hospital. The owner of the auto, George O, Linkletter, of Manhasset Was driving (he machine when the ae | cident happened. Hubert ad some other boys were riding on a grocers Wagon and kept jumping off ont play. Hubert junped oft ana In front of the autour hit by the mud guard could be il was fru f the Db: of his ti in was n y veme Me. Linkletter, who Is twenty-three yeara old, Is almost prostrated over the afta! it Is generally believed that he is not to blame for the dent and that he did al! in his , Conservative Member HLL HAS LONG TAK WTH PAR Ex-Senator Spends the After- noon in Conference with the Judge, but is Silent on the Topics Discussed by Thom. Esoris, N. Y. Sept. 12—David PB. Hill was a guest at Rosemount to-day He stayed to luncheon with the family and remained in conference with Judge Parker during the afterr Mr. Hill dectined eit to tell the purp ? hie vielt or fo discuss the sit K se sation sald All eyes are now upon the Repub- Saratoga. It 1s to wth Woe Means at ugh ior Hated tned to A rival Judge Parker reading President epta He yy about its cone ap € Roosevelt's Would express 2 of Parliament for the Thanct Division of Kent and) bce rad aay Sea “LAEFORCHLDS Driver Clark, of Brooklyn Engine Man in Dangerous Condition nesday In St. Cecilia's Roman Cath: | His left leg had to be amputated, and | 8 ony at Sg F aed POLE US ALL ON ACCOUNT hi ie OF ACHAIS Hl Mr. and Mrs. Bullock, Who tended, Butt In On Mr. | Mrs. King, Who Didn'ts | What Followed Was a: i | ti |CELLS FOR BULLOCKS, SURGEONS FOR ‘Landlady Maher Graphically 0 | soribes What Resulted. Whe | a Model Man Fell Off ty Water Wagon. Mrs. Gertrude Maher, the Iandl the flat-house at No, East TI third street, declared with fervor Evening World reporter to-day tt ‘hoped that no more of her would be called upon to attend ate enings in the immediate futures» git Mr. and Mrs, Edward Bullock, @RGul oecupted an apartment on the oo of her house, went to one night. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ki live in the apartment above, but remained coaily at home return of the Bullocks. The are now occupying cells In the” Thirty-ftth street station, awaiting the arrival of a The Kings are occupying hospital cots in thelr flat, “Sure and it was a grand said Mrs, Maher to-day. “The ) ig” shakin’ yet from the trial it had) ain 9 one of my boarders has the oalsy Gaol the fright he got, Fell Of the Water Wagon,” “Now I want you to understand ff Mr Buttock had been model man, had been on the water wagon 4 | years, And he rode it fine, tip | tening. Then he went over the jan’ with all due respects to Mis. lock I think she took the j him, an’ also thelr boarder, a fing man named John Jordan, came home they put my house bumps, too, an’ It’s rockin’ yet. “"Twas this way. The wi was a sleepin’ like a baby. was 5 o'clock In the they came in, takin’ the front them. Mr. Bullock ts a hig needs a wide doorway wi waikin’ careless. Mrs, Bullock | big, and Mr. Jordan, thelr r big: But they'll _nevér here, never a one of them surw | Mrs, King lost all the hair in 1 and she a little woman no peanut, Poor King, hell net ladder to paint them fing many a day, He's all threshed @ {here ain't a white paten of aim oa AM a Mis “You see the Bullocks had flights of stairs to mae they in one more, ‘Twas mist > sald, and a mistake it 1 been, but the way they was to beat th’ Kin sure that ain't nice, ‘When Bullock put his key door, dein’ the wrong door, it ‘Then he got mad and he an’’ lock and Mr. Jordan leaned jdoor, They weren't a bit q ft, and Mr. and Mra, King |thelt pajamas, thinkin’ there |alars comin’ in. Naturally ; Bullock came in with the door Mr, iim Dit him in the face with his and who wouldn't bit a man tn | who ceme in your house talk wall with him? “Bulldck says he didn't | King, He thought he was and he and his friend, Mr. J jat him, Mrs, Bullock didn't | Mrs. King was Mrs. King in @ and she got tse poor little | the halr and began taking ft Kc /handfuls, at the same time poke or two that was not I | Nolee und Lang “There wag noise with It | think, and Mnguage, sure, fine language from the d the ladies sald to eaoh other excitement was not getithe, door breaking in and the breaking up, we was all we thought the ‘Binel was murdering the us without even sending us card to tell us wh: bers,’ and such all over the housy and in five mln the street was [ull of pajamas nightshirte—and men them. Mad I known it was the butting in on the Kings a christening I never would have \n the police, I'd have gone ap and pulled Mr, Bullock off Mr, i and Mrs. Bullock off Mrs, King, 4 then tried to pacity them wit! taling in the police, “But from the nolse I though was ten burglars, so I | (Jimmy) out to call LY rave liutle man, who pa tlud to beat on the sifewalk, aad thea © te }went upstairs with only one little pa: in his hand against he didn’t kaow E many robbers. Before he Was Up GRe” ight the tenants told him there @erg forty, oe Cop Hit with a Sofm. . the wash “when he got up another went down again with a soa a tow! that came flying out of the fiat with other things, But he with the china in his hair and the niture around bis neck In thme t King’s Ife and some of Mrs. hair. Then eight policemen more in and the Bullocks realized the in the wrong flat, The leapt over thee heir own, bar- * T sak x Iw wml anid thrgagh the doc took Bee ‘ops to get it down avith Mr, @nde Rutloek on the ‘naide. | guest i the cops five minutes the door, and then they of the wall with them en Mr. Bullock came out al’of the polleemen took a whack at him far what he sald to them through the door, " they took him and Mrs, Ruils » with some of ‘poor eg’s fine Mack hale etft In her fine © —and Mr Jordan, *he buar@er, ta. - pollee #tation, Landiady Takes No More Chances, ee ” t make any Int, so they were bound over ph ire they will not 7” be p it in bowee, Ln tout of Jal poss niture to them, by on a second ol a. tt say that, ‘were go