The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-02
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Il DISGUISED MAN.



An April LIST Joke That Caused an italian
Soma Hard Work and Trouble.
New York, April 1.--Petro Savini, an
Italian bootblack, who has a stand on
the northwest corner of Grand and
Essex streets, was made the victim Of
and April fool joke to-day, and as
result was arrested by Policeman
Whitman of the Eldridge street station
as a suspicious character.
Savini was approached early this
morning by two men who carried
cheese boxes under their arms. The
boxes were marked Cheese for Angus
tus Gloistein, corner of Grand and Els
sex streets" Gloistein is the proprietor
of saloon directly opposite the boot
blacks stand The men gave the Ital-
ian twenty-five cents to deliver the
boxes to Gloistein. 1t required all the
bootblack's strength to carry them
across the street
Here are two boxes of cheese for
you said the bootblack to Gloistein.
The latter took the two boxes into the
back room and opening them found
they contained bricks. He hastily
nailed up the boxes and told Savini
that mistake had been made, and
that they were intended for Silver Dol
lar Smith, who. keeps saloon nearby
on Essex street The Italian then car
ried the boxes to Smiths saloon, and
the latter without opening them said
they belonged to Phil Wissig, who
keeps a saloon at the corner of Forsyth
and Grand streets. Savini, according
ly, carried the boxes to Wissig's sa
loon, but Wissig was suspicious, and
directed the italian back to Gloisten 8
saloon.
On the way down Grand street Po-
liceman Whitman stopped Savini. and
asked him what he had in the boxes.
Cheese" replied the italian. Whit
man lifted the boxes, and said:
Cheese! Well guess not. / never
knew cheese to weigh as much as this. !"
He then arrested the italian. When
the boxes We're opened at the police
station the joke was disclosed and Sa-
VIM was released.
AN APRIL FOOL TRAGEDY.
Last evenings New York Sun says:
An April joke was perpetrated this
morning on a big grey and white cat
which belongs to the workrooms of Ar
mold Schiff & Co, umbrella makers, in
Church street, by somebody connected
with table d'hote restaurant in the
basement below. It was a fatal joke
for the cat, for it ended with its lying
dead in the gutter with bullet from
policeman's revolver inside. its ribs.
Tom discovered treasure. 1t was
wine basket half filled with broken
bottles in which there remained the
dregs of the table hote claret.
Inside of half an hour Tom present
ed the beastliest spectacle of intoxica-
ton ever seen in Church street. AS he
became drunken he began to sing and
swear. Policeman Edward J. Looney of
the Leonard street squad found him
swaying to and fro on the fire escape
over the restaurant and performing a.
series oe acrobatic feats which made
him wonder. The cats antics were so
very extraordinary that Looney tried
to dislodge it from its lofty perch by
throwing pebbles at it. They only
made the cat howl the louder and jump
the more wildly
A shot from the policeman's revolver
finally brought him down. 1t also
brought a burglar alarm man from
the next block, anxious to know where
the murder was. When he found Loon
ely dispatehing the wounded cat with
his club he understood.
The blotter at the Leonard street
station bears a record that Policeman
Looney this morning shot a mad cat.