Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-04
ing to shake me of .Alrtt want to do i. to
why He Didnf Get In,


get into that house.
why He Didn.r Get In.
You do. hey?' sald; !, thinking he
might be burglar gone natty from the
way he talked. 'That'sl what want you
for and 1 started to TAKE HIM along
Say, / live there yoIk know, said he.
"'oh, cut that out. said I. Why don't
you .s 60 in not then 1dt me h)f.a he =. no
the bell for about half an hour before you
came along. She handed me The threat be-
fore l went out last night that she'd lock
me out if 1 didn't get AonD before mid
night, and so here / am It's the dickens,
amt it?' -
And he grinned at me- sheepishly.
Il decided to test this story, and so 1
took him up the front steps and pushed the
button myself No reply. Then l gave the
door a few taps with my club. In half a
minute there was a female voice coming
out of the second-story window, and then
l knew my housebreaker was all right, and
also that his wife was 1t. II didn't blame
him for standing outside, leaning against
the tree box. I'd have leaned against a
tree box all night rather' than get deal
like he got from above - She demanded
me to take him off forthwith. to a dungeon,
but jollied her along and made terms with
her and she finally let him IN
Want Their Husbands Arrested.
1t seems, from the pQlicemens stories,
that quite a number of W1yes-and not in
the lower strata Of society, either-occa-
sionally feel that their happiness cannot be
complete unless their husbands are con-
signed to dungeons by police officers. An
F street policeman followed. the new cops
story UP with a description OF row be-
tween young married couple on his beat
a few afternoons previously. The couple
had had violent but low-toned afterca-
ton right in the middle of the pass ng
throng, and then the young woman, accord
ing to the policeman, walked up to him
and demanded the immediate arrest and
imprisonment of her spouse.
What for?" inquired the officer.
For swearing at me on the public
street she replied.
Il didn't hear any swearing" sid the
officer .Who is he? Do you know him,
has he insulted you by trying to make your
acquaint ance? l can arrest him as a street
loafer if he's done that.
oh l know him. she said. Il know
him too we'll the good-for-nothing thing.
He's my husband, and / want him arrested
for profanity" ~. --s .-...
His profanity isn't loud enough said
the policeman, and then ne advised her to
control herself bit -.''-.
'"They got into a cab then and went away
together" said the officer "jawing at each
other to beat the band.
Other idlers among the officers around
the station followed this up with stories of
wives who wanted their husbands arrested
for not bringing home their money on Sat
urday nights for spanking the children,
and SO on.
TOughs Sang Hymns.
The new policemen are toyed with a good
deal by the groggery loungers down near
the water front, and they are sometimes
pretty hard put to it to know how to act.
A new policeman who went on one of the
water front beats not long ago received in
structions before he went on post for his
first tour with regard to gang of ioungers
who hung around certain saloon, making
night hideOus with berry songs The gang
saw him first, when he made his initial
approach in the direction Of the groggery,
but they didn't disperse. There were about
dozen of them and they Started in to
sing Salvation Army hyullis.a The officer
looked upon and listened TO l}he perform
ance in astonishment, hft The character
of the music puzzled HIM when he step
ped in and told the gangsto move on they
gaZed upon him with eyes eof ireproach and
asked him how long there had been any
law against open-air Services The officer
was fully aware that he, was being film
hammed, but nevertheless hei wasn't posi-
tive in his own mind that he had any right
to dispense a body of hymp singers So he
asked for instructions when the turned in
the next morning. and got the laugh long
and loud for it, The gang. of hymn singers
DID not try that one on again.,
A House Is No. Castle. 49,
,.,, ,,,s - 'I-e itefT, VI tiie man
furn;trra o,,,o, - .~.- -. " -
mans housa 10 bts-castIa,. al -
man who has a pretty turbulent beat
THAT notions resnonsibIe fo whole Iot
of trorhra 8. rnan,, h.,,..o :; IT. $500,
is what they call old English common law
1 guess. There are some cases where a
mans house isn't his castle, by a long shot
l We got lot of such cases on my beat
ha hos Of ha
mouse comes home with his Saturday night
jag ana proceeds to pound his wife and
chlidren, throw the dishes out of the Win
cow, KICK the furniture to kindling wood
ana otherwise enliven the neighborhood.
When prance in to corral a fellow that
does these things he generally throws that
one at me about mans house being his
castle, 1t $ pretty near time that this idea
passed out that an ugly man with a fight
ing load on can do any old thing short of
arson ana murder within the shelter of his
own house, and then kick over being arrest
eH on the man s-house-is-h is-castle PROPOSE
non.
Inc dlfncultieS that ma Ike breaches