The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-17
POLICE WERE BUSY
Clinton Inebriates
Brave the April
Snow Storm.
NEWSTATI0N RULES
Ancient Pack of Cards
Will Be OF No Further
Use to the Officers.

Clinton April 16.-The last So hours
have seen the police industrious. Six
offenders have been locked up since
$50 o'clock yesterday. Drunkenness is
the charge against each offender, but
there is a faint of something more Sc
rious in one case.
This morning officer George L.
Greene. Jr., saw three men go into
freight car on the Boston and Maine
road. near the station. He observed
their conduct at a distance, and was not
satisfied with it. He made up his mind
that three was too many to tackle
alone. and telephoned to the police sta
tion assistance. Officer Joseph Law
son came down, and the officers went
TO the car. where they found James
Kane, laborer, within, and two 9TH
ers. Kane was intoxicated, but the
others were sober. There was no APP
parent reason why the sober men
should have been in the car with Kane.
They did not seem to be the class of
fellows who needed the shelter of a
freight car.
There was. however, no charge
against them, so only Kane was arrest
ed. Chief Oren B. Bates has received
the circumstances are worth being in
vestigated further. 1t is possible that
developments more or less unpleasant
may come from the investigation. Kane
is well known to the police. He is a
laborer and resides in town.
Melville H. Young, who claims to hail
from White River Junction, VT, was
arrested for drunkenness by officer
James O'Malley, at 11.3O o'clock, last
night Special Officer Jacob H. Bind
hammer will look at him tomorrow
morning, to see If he is not the man
who was elected from the Clinton the
ire, last evening, for splitting on the
floor. If he is the man, another
charge will be added.
Michael Grady, who resides in Hast
ings court was arrested by order of
Chief Bates. by officer Clark. The
chief was making a reconnaissance on
his wheel. when he saw Grady with a
fighting jag. 1t seemed impossible to
separate Grady from his jag, so the
chief had them locked up together.
Grady was bailed out today.
John HaveY was arrested at Depot
square for being drunk, by Officer o.
Malley. He claims Leominster as his
home. He was bailed.
When Officer Greene arrested limo
thy Hartnett the latter made a vigor-
Gus resistance. To avoid using his
club, the officer demanded assistance of
a citizen. and receiving 1t, got his man
to the station house with a whole
head.
Hartnett belongs in Fitchburg.
Friends from that place came to his
assistance this afternoon and gave
bonds for his appearance in the district
court tomorrow morning.
George Morgan, the Worcester Grip
pie who was arrested last night, as told
in The Spy this morning, is very sore
today, from his fall from the train that
he tried to board. He has no money.
If he is fined. it is likely he will have
to spend few days in Fitchburg.
There is now no card playing in the
police station. Chief Bates is not op-
posed to card playing, on general prin-
ciples. His objection is particular. He
thinks card playing in the police sta
ton would be on the whole destructive
of the morale of the force. The ancient
pack that once occupied a place of
honor in the drawer of the oak table in
the patrolmeus room has been destroy
ed. 1t was but a question of time when
the board of health would have con-
demned these cards and caused their
destruction as a matter of public safe
ty.
Chief Engineer Harold Parker con-
tinues to take his instruction from the
original board of trustees. No instruc-
lions have been given to him, in fact
by the new trustees. 1t would be more
accurate to say that the work now be-
ing done by Mr.. Parker is carrying out
orders received from the trustees when
they entered into agreement with him
TO supervise the removal of the bodies
from the old to the new cemetery.
These orders were to prepare the new
cemetery for the reception Of bodies
and to devise and carry out a plan for
removing the bodies from the old GEM
etery Many persons here have been
trying TO figure profit in the work Of
moving the bodies, at the price for