New-York tribune., 1903-02-28
STUCK IN THE SCUTILE.
Fat Woman Wos Escaping from
PooIroom Rad

There are some axioms that are learned only By
the bitter experience of being bitten ohe u
these is:
"A fat woman should never attempt flight
through lean scutte
It's coroary is:
"A fat woman should never play the races in a
poolroom without first measuring the scutte-
The demonstration of the foregoing was gwen
before large and appreciative audience cohsi9'-
ing partly of policemen, yesterday afternoon III
West Eighth-st.. Sixth-ave- over the Saloon
is Ranes law hotel. and when Captain o oC'o-naii'
OF the Mercer-st. station. with force OF detec''e
and policemen burst into the saloon rear iooii
twenty feminine sports who had been testing
their ability to pick winner at the dope game
the captain says. sought the rooms OF the hotei.
One woman of ample proportions. ike pro1ecuoli
money. went higher up and after getting .hrous '
the scutte far as the belt lne' again hA0 Pi
lection money, became stationary
No storm siren ever screeched louder OK hi'ie
alarmingly than she.
I'm stuckr' she bawled
mo it's on the house." remarked a man ID '"e
crowd which had quickly gathered
Got in pocket at the start, said anotheE'
Help! Rescue! Police. Murder! Fire. sne
screamed
Captain O'Gorman and his men surveyed tne scene
ruefully The scuttle was entitled 10 SOM :. ~
Grafton. derrick was sent for. but before II a,
rived the fat woman's wrggles and the pohcelheii
muscles had made ingress and esress through the
scuttle possible again
In the mean time Otner polCeHieH AoN
other women hiding under beds and in closets anu
had rounded up all of them
Miss Annie Simmons, of No 10 Peari-s' anu
Edward Graham a clerk, Of No a Grahaln-s''
F2rooklvn were arrested charged with keeping
noo,roou, and Arthur Gardner, of No 40 Grove-st'
the proprietor of the saloon, and his oarCeiUei'
Ernest Hanes of No. 81 West Eishth-st-' "eI0
charged with being disorderly persons
Long had Captain German sought 10 gam eH,- VI
aa,co against the place. Various female joseph
Garohses had gone there, only 10 report 20 tiIs
1an thar so far they could ascertain t1e e.
Who concregated there were members Oh tlS ~
cietv for Shedding Light in the DarhntsS oL 80
bor,e1 In vain O'Ciorman looked through ine uoP5
money f III na % bomev Unless he's ringer" said
fbe cantain hes not in the turf. though ne heces
"a rfIv HouId bo a dark horse --... 1,--
Theu az his last resort, he sent ths ~ = :,
Ida Clark on sieuthing errdnd, Hrst sc r =
- Il, MA cling bets and poolrOon pdriancc Inv VI
tba detertves (1e never played. but had nesrd peo
she studied il O. nights. between prisoner.
Tnatron saws that she spent the hrst Gay ~ II IL
Iatinp the arid waste of the DahoHan DaInes, Dc
4hat fhey needed much irrtSatng On tae sec",c III
dav 5the drouth having been broken hISO' sue
talked horse .. -,,-= sboued
Miss Annie SnInohs. In os ~ ~ Ia honey and
more knowledge of horses tflah oL DS'iOiiio' ~
accepted bets from her ,L.1 .~o ~
"It was all due to Fading Light, soobed one oL W
the women at the station. II had a hunc1 nov ~
pIay him but the dope said he was gooq Oh IN
fiat with only 125 up. and though. a.. R{ t1t+
faded all right all right, and then the ponce
came. .z..a mt so run -
Ventured the matrOn.