Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-02
THE RAMBLER.

Yesterday. as most people are aware, was
All Fools day, and many were fooled. 0.
G. Daisy originated the biggest and most
successful fool scheme have heard OF, and
the police were the chief victims. Daisy
was out early and perhaps stayed up all
night Matching up the scheme. BE went
down TO the Manhattan hotel and with tho
assistance of the boys there fixed up .
dummy in excellent man form with hat and
all. The stiff was taken out intn the
orchard behind the hotel, and then Daisey
struck for butcher shop, daubed his hands
and clothes over with gore, and with vest
open, shirt partly pulled out and spattered
with blood, and in general appearance like
one Just loose from most sanguinary COM
bat, started out for victims. The first he
encountered were Drs. Doyle and Lee and
they took the bait Daisy's story was that
Q man at the Manhattan had accused him of
tampering with the affections of his wife, when
fight ensued. They were parted, but the
man followed him outside, and the struggle
was renewed and he was afraid that he had
done his man up. The police were selected
as the principal victims and were badly done
up. Daisy hired hack and with Lou As
pey. started for officers Clark and Maralatt,
who had but q short time previous been re-
lieved from their watch, and had just
turned into bed. Daisy with his disorderly
and excited state, backed up with honest
Lou Aspey, would have deceived anybody,
and the Wichita police always ready to per-
form their duty, Of course made all haste,
and the hack ratified down Douglas avenue
to the scene of the dreadful tradgedJ. The
officerss iismounted and Clark arranged his
belt and revolver, ready for action if need
be, and bravely faced the stiff which lay
under an apple tree. The other officers
followed in line of battle until
Clark turned the corpse over. when the
truth broke in upon the whole crowd.
The fluid was set up of course and the joke
spread all over town. The stiff lay in state
in the orchard all day and was viewed by
many. Later on Daisy was victimized
himself. The proprietors of the cracker fac
tory were to pay him their rent and Mr..
Phillips wrote out check but failed to put
any amount on it, filling the part which
should be in figures with ciphers. Daisy
took the check and presented it to some
one whom he owed. He was caught and
had to set 'em up.
| Tho proprietOrs of the Manhattan and the
City drug store were victimized with checks,
too, but they were not in the nature OF
April fool checks. Some fellow who regis
tered as Charles L. Philipson, of Medicine
Lodge, and who had been at the hotel sew
eral days, played off this game. He Dor
rowed Sc at the drug store and gave check
on the Citizens bank for the amount.
He gave the Manhattan people
a similar check for $50. He had no funds
in the bank of course. The proprietors of
the drug store said they saw him have $50
check at the time he wss in their store.
haven't heard whether he victimized some
one on that.
am often requested to give The authori-
ties thunder on the subject Of street nomen-
clature, or rather the lack of it. 1t is CON-
planned that strangers are at total loss to
find streets, and that aside from very few
we'll known streets but few old citizeds can
help them out. Well, what the people
want me to say is that the names of the
streets should be on each corner.