Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-27

ters Prom Shop Windows Treated
as slight Error of Judgment aud
Only Fine inflicted on the Thief
well by j. uiius Caesar am thor.
oughly disgusted with this police court of
ours The justice administered there would
make a mule bray" said an avenue mer-
chant to the GLOBE scribe last night
What's up now1'
What do you think of this case There
have been fellows going around town at
night stealing the white letters of win
dows"
What can they want of them"
"Want of them-why they clean them up
and come around theneXt day and sell them
TO the merchant whose window has been de-
faced or robbed. Now I was standing near
Whimey's cider establishment on the
avenue the other night and I saw a fellow
remove some letters with knife He
slipped the blade of The kniN under the
letter and removed it while You could
wink A citizen who came along minute
or two after this performance asked me
what ! was gazing at the window so intently
for told him what occurred and that the
thief was then only "a few yards ahead.
Now this citizen, who happened TO be
police officer in plain CLOTHES" pursued the
fellow and arrested him right i'm the act Of
stealing letters from another window"
yes"
what do YOU suppose Police judge
did with The tmef2'
six months i'm the workhouse at least"
Not much. The Dogberry hummed and
hawed and got of this piece of wisdom"
"rhis is anew crime and is not covered
by the statutes There is no precedent that
] can recall
After pause he says
Ten dollars fine,
Now. what do you think of that2n
"Why it was theft simple and pure.
"Of course il was theft, and vet this Po-
lice Justice thought there was no statute
covering theft, and let the thief OFF with
fine of sIo--a lighter sentence than he in
nicts on some honest man hauled up for
getting a little fun, " and the indignant
merchant turned toward the store door to
greet customer.
'This mission OF charity layout on
Louisiana avenue is doing more harm than
good said a cynical individual in group
of government employees, last night, in
front of the National Hotel
Particulars please said the GLOBE.
'Weu, had personal experience before
] caught ON to my present job. applied
there for little relief and told them the
truth that / was a printer out of job and
expected work when i got over the felou on
my right thumb They put me to saving
wood, and ia my crippled condition know
that ] earned more than the meals ] got.
While ] was there a hard-lool<iug citizen
came along. He told his story. He was
ticket ofleavc' man from England, had
been in prison iu Florida. led a wild and
criminal life, never had any honest employ
meut but now wanted to reform and turn
over a new leaf
"Yes--what did they do for him2"
Received him with open arms. Wept
and prayed by turns over him. Fed him,
beddcd him, clothed him pumped him full
of gospel wind and held q kind of jubilee
over his conversion.
well don't you think that was nice and
charitable 2"
40, do not think il was putting
premium ON criminalty. Here was ], an
honest printer with a half healed felon on
my thumb. and because 1 had never com
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a lone pedestrian, put TO saving wood
and treated uuceremoniously as a beggar.
tell you that mission is helping a lot of
these dead beat loafug criminals"
In what way2"
Take and watch the police court and you
will find out If, for instance, any thug
makes himself numerous around the mis-
sion and gets arrested for a crime, the mis-
sion has only to send word to Judge Kim
ball that the aforesaid thug is one Of their
converts temporarily fallen from grace and
he escapes punishment and is turned free
to eat mission grub and continue his pre-
datory excursions upon honest citizens
residences and stores hlchiug whatever
comes in handy" and the typo turned to
his companions who nodded their heads ap-
provingly
81 served with Schley and / am ready to
lead a storming party and board that Navy
Department Office where them shore sailors
hatched up this devolish conspiracy against
one of the bravest men who ever led a bat
tleship into action, said a quiet but deter
mined looking citizen while waiting yester.