The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-30
A GREAT DOGBERRY.
Jailer Noble Gets Two Prison
ers Badly Mixed.
SUSPECTED BURGLAR IN LUCK.
He Pays . Fine With His Drunken Sub
stitute's Money and Leaves With
Balance Of "a.

About O'clock Wednesday night as officer J.
W. Glasscock was going to his beat he saw
man come out of the Golden State hotel on
soath Third street, between Washington and
Main, with some clothing in his possession The
officer followed him aud, becoming satisfied
that he had committed burglary, put him I'M
DER arrest, and at headquarters he was booked
on suspicion under the name OF John Hughes.
HIS personal property inventoried % centa At
1880 O'Clock John Anderson, while drunk, fell
into the bay and was pulled out by Officer Glass
cock ana sent to the station drunk"
John had $9. IS on his person.
In some manner Jsiler Noble got the men
mixed or they effected a transformation. for
Hughes, the suspected burglar, got into the re-
ceiving cell and Anderson was placed in the
suspects cell There il a wall between the
rooms, and. as is frequently the case, q CONVEX
sation ensued between the prisoners. This
must have occurred or the sequel is hard to ex.
piain. When Judge Rivers opened the munich
pal court yesterday morning the blotter showed,
John Anderson, drunk The man was taken
from the receiving cell, answered In court TO
the name OF Anderson. was fined S, took "a. %
In change. and walked out with Q self-satisfied
air.
Between and 4:s0 O'Clock Officer J. w. Glass
cock got Louisa Rosa, propretress Of the Golden
state hotel, to file Q complaint against John
Hughes for burglary. A warrant was issued by
Jvs;ice Won Tobel, and the complaining witness
waited for Officer Glasscock to return with the
prisoner. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Cald-
well was called to try the case, and together
with Justice Won Tobel waited for the prisoner.
In few minutes the officer returned, but
alone. His face told that something had gone
wrong. Then he told how, when he went to
bring John Hughes forth from the cell he found
not the man he wanted, but poor John Ander-
son, who fell in the bay. There was a sudden
commotion at headquarters, but the records
showed that John Anderson had been fined S..
received his change and gone. Officer Glass
cock has a warrant for the arrest of John
Hughes, but the clever impersonator has doubt
less hidden where 1t will be hard to find him.
The real Anderson is still in Jail, and the po-
lice do not know what to do with him. He has
in effect paid his fine and been released by
proxy, but he is registered as John Hughes, a
suspected burglar, and the police have to pro-
duce somebody to answer to that charge.
The latest proposition to meet such an emer-
gency is to adopt the expedient of an Old-fash-
toned preacher who used to marry poor couples
in patches. One morning he had eight couples
to "put through" and. had arranged them
hastily around the altar railing. when two of
the grooms complained that they were paired
off with the wrong brides. The preacher impa-
tiently replied: swell, never mind; sort your
selves out afterwards" The policemen may
conclude to sort out their prisoners after they
have been sentenced.