The sun., 1897-11-20
CARPENTER A PRISONER.
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
ADVENTURE IN THIRD AVENUE.

He Accused Women with whom re Drank in
n Third Avenue saloon OF Having Robbed
Him OF ais watch--An Throe Taken to q
Police station--I1e was Hailed by His wire.
A man and two women went to Louis Schip-
pers saloon, at Thirty-hrst street and Third
avenue. at o o'clock last night and sat down at
small table in the back room. The man rang
the bell to call waiter. and Schipper, who was
behind the bar, answered tho summons and
asked what was wanted.
The women said they wanted cocktails. The
man said he wanted whiskcy. Schpper looked
at him closely.
"Iguess you'd better not have any whiskey
now," he said.
why not T. asked the man.
well, you've had all you can hold" said
schipper. Tho best thing you can drink 10
something cold and soft"
"Do you mean to say that Tn drunk and
can't buy drinks here T. demanded the man.
Yes, that's it," said Schipper.
Well guess can. You don't know who
am. I'm Carpenter. Philip Carpenter, Assis-
tant District Attorney Philip Carpenter" shout
ed the man, banging the table with his ist.
We'll you may be-" said Schipper. and you
may not be. ! don't know"
The man became very angry, but tho women
with him quietod him after while and he
uBEccu W uTlnk u glabS OI bellZcr ana lemon on
their promising that after one round of drinks
they would go somewhere else.
Schipper served the drinks and tho man paid
for them. Schpper went back behind tho bar,
and expected to hoar nothing more of the party
in the back room. Everything was quiet for
few minutes. Then the door to the rear room
was kicked open with bang. and tho man who
| called himself Carpenter made his way to the
bar. He told Schipper that he had been robbed
of his watch, and that he thought of the
| woman in the back room ha d taken it. The man
| said he wanted II policeman called. and Schipper
| called In Policeman Geisler of the East Thirty
| fifth street station. who was on duty In Third
avenue. When the policeman got to the saloon
| the women declared their innocence, 80 he de-
matter before the Sergeant on duty
When the party got t9 the East ThiSEtyatth
He called the matron who searched the women.
| No watch was found on them. While they were
being searched the Sergeant decided to lock tho
":.WWhat''s your nsme," he asked; cd, o r..
3ou know me-. fSS Every H'o1tnfs one fnows
Wen, | don't know you" said ,Fagan. but
Sa'ass asfed Tss the
Il mean that you re drunk. and we're going
big cut on Your forehead now, and You aren' {
In any condition to be around"
h % tG Ss Ssas
in n rage. He denounced tho Sergeant. and
said that any indignity offered to him would ro'
suit in Fagan's dismissal from the Police De-
partment.
After he had been in a cell about fifteen
minutes he asked Sergeant Pagan II he might
send a telegram to his wife. The telegram was
sent, and after the man had been locked up
three-quarters of an hour woman drove to tho
| station house In n cab
She said she was Mrs. Fanny II. Carpenter
and that she wanted to bail out Philip Carpen.
ter. She offered security the house at 266
West End avenue. valued at $65 1000. with a
mortgage of $4,000 on it. The security was
accepted. The house is given in tho directory
as the homo Of Assistant District Attorney
| Philip Carpenter. E.,,- .t
When The prisoner wa. oruusut up 10 be re
leased he called Sergeant Fagan "an Internal
scoundrel." Mrs. Carpen ter apologized TO Pagan
The women who said they were Annie Brown
of 229 East Seventy-fourth street and Hattie
Pierce Of 40 King street, were locked up fol
| intoxication.