Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-04
Some Queer Things That a Police
man Runs Up Against.
A new MAN HAS MANY TROUBLES
Indignant Wives Who Want the
Law on Their Husbands.
NEIGHBORHOOD sQUABBLEs


or surging throngs on Washington's thor
oughfares-whe therefore, Washington is crush
ingly assailed by the dreary-gay Manhat-
tanite and the elbowing Chicagoan-but
there is enough of incident on the capitals
streets to at once instruct, entertain and
beguile the Washington policemen. A lot
of things happen here. too. that subtract
from the sum total of the policaman's hap
piness. Many of the queer unusual and
humorous incidents that occur in the daily
rounds of policemen go unrecorded. Most
of the arrests they make are simply re-
counted without detail, and the arrests that
they don't make are generally not men,
toned at all.
For example if The Star we're to attempt
to publish a daily list of the futile efforts of
policemen to gather in alley and vacant. lot
crap shooters, all over the city, the exclu-
sive services of one compiler would be
necessary to get all of the data together
Consequently, only the name and records
of the crap shooters who are nabbed in the
daily roundup are published.
policeman who has been patroling the
same beat, down on the Island" for Il
number OF years estimates that he makes
an average of three salles ana swooBs upon
crap shooters every day, and that he only
succeeds in Corraling, for all his effort an
average OF one and a half crap shooters a
week. This is of course attributable to the
crap shooters fieetness of foot, as we'll as
to their well-deviSed system of mounting
,pickets at outpOsts as guards. II is about
$3.50 49, apy ~ 900 Sii iio.h an en-,
noon as if is for a uniformed noIicaman 70
make his way to a ring of crap shooters
before the alarm is spread.
Faithful Guards.
As the shark is attended by the niIot
fish for a guide, 50 is the crap shooter min
istered to by the young urchin and disciple
in the CAPACITY of guard Gran shooters or
-Io,,o. .,,,aria,,oa of,ar b,,,o - -. -
80 'e''oo "a .e4i ma e'' iitaHS a'
hah a dozen guards on their STATS. The
devotion OF these urchin guards to their
chiefs is touching for its loyalty. They
perform their important guard duties with
out hope for or expectation of any reward
other than a word of commentator from
tne Dig boys the crap shooters, When the
chase Is all over. and they perform their
uutleS wen. Longing as they must to see
the progress OF the bone game, they yet
take their selected stations about a block
away at various points OF approach, and
when the hated brass buttons and badge
appear-pohcemen are regarded as enemies
to society by crap shooters and their
tIS-there HI. de cop! is full of the
triumphant ring OF duty well performed.
THESE outposts positions, too, are the
really dangerous ones, for they have to put
up a neeter run for safety than the crap
shooters themselves, on account of their
49, neal ness 10 'he approaching po-
w '"'ch mem.
ought u nc pretty easy 10 nap crap
"neh YOU eaten them hahohhs
sHo ooies III d pi'hd ahey, suggested
man " 'iie oie9diu poiicefhah Oh
experience IN crap-shooting neighbor-
hood
The policeman smiled indulgently.
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to - 4 - ~ tiiei! III d piiiu dHeS'
on r. 49, t.h d an. nj 9eioiis dCceH'
Snrator or ,,ar,thi- - a iiit1t u ''l'e'
- U - 'iiitis "Iicii ttal iIdppehs'
Lror,, how he nroS.,d 10y GU W
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erant,tatf Of ir+b 49, - 10 81
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pnt h. 80 n 80 49,! utl"ei zen hiltIuteo.
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starts aFtar 4ta,, nc fit,, w., ~ IL
,i,I,1 1880 '~1'- nv 't'''7' 'iteii III eNSiS
A,peorapcas Arc n.caits,,
nj.
mere are III lact number OF police
men in Washington whose physiques fool
eviIdoers A few months ago a nOIiramaD
in citizer,s c,o,bos r.ooor,,i,oa = 4t,;oe 60
-, g ,i'9i -oi
"'loiii 'he pol'e "eie ioohli!S Oh oth street
not far from Pennsylvania avenue. The
officer tips the beam at something close to
26D pounds, and he is not particularly tall
either. He nabbed his man and took him
over to a call box The thief had sirnuIat ted
extreme drunkenness from the moment the
policeman got him. and he did II so we'll
that he threw the officer off his guard
Therefore. while waiting for the patrol
wagon the policeman, instead of hanging on
to the drunk-simulating prisoner. permitted
the man to lean UP against the box. The
oilCei SttPptu Wlthil the pox 1or the BRIEF
the shout of a small hot, Who w. iooL,in o
on. The prisoner had made Jump for
liberty, and when the officer leaped out of
t ene cdlI poA me man VINO hau the loot
Tho God rTbe fat nf45ne &c go. ~
however and he ran his man down, dead
beat, on the mall, across from Missouri ave
nue..
There are some slight men on the Wash
lngton police force, too, who fool big, strap
ping 'drunks and disorderlies" when it
comes to test of strength. One of these