The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-17

teau alivei' I fought shed suddenly
become a bug, your honor, an I was
r1xin t give tn young Teller a lift in
case tn goil got sure-'nougn busy wit
that pig-sticker. But he grabs tn knife
out O. her han, yells Hal hal youse
idiot maiden, t t'ink that I'll be so easy
ro1led! an he's 1eS' about t. plunge it
into tn COILS shirt waist wen I ups an
knocks him down wit a chair. Then
i m nailed Wot FIR? YouSe kin search
me. your nonor-it's too deep FIR mei''
The waiter, too, was restored to free
dom upon his own" recognizances, the
magistrate cautioning him, however, to
be more chary in his use of chairs until
he felt assured that %e was right The
hanged-up heavy man of the Maniac
Motner-in-law" company went forth
from the police court convinced that
there is no such a thing as justice in
New York.
Her industrious penchant for re-
hearsing at all hours of the day and
night came perilously close to land
ing most estimable young woman
chopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital
the other night The psychopathic
ward, it should be explained, is the
Bellevue pavilion somewhat slangily
York police reporters. Persons sus-
pected of insanity are held there for
observation by medical individuals.
The ambitious young woman from
Iowa had been SO diligently rehears-
ing her first part in the Sunk in the
swamp" piece that she had been turn
ed out of one boarding house. When
she took the second-story front in the
boarding house to which she removed
she thought it best not to inform her
new landlady that she was a theatrical
person. Before she unpacked her
trunk, even, she began to go through
her lines in the Sunk" etc, piece.
She became so immersed in her work
that she didn't even stop for dinner.
Her part was that of a beautiful hero
inc who had become temporarily mad
through her exposure in the swamp
while searching for her kidnapped sis
ter. The young woman in the new
boarding house spent hours in per-
tectlng her mastery of the low, gurg-
ling, insane laughter, and then the
piercing, maniacal cries of the theat-
really begged young woman.
Suddenly there was a great banging
on her door, and then three huge po-
ltc@raFn entered her room, follow ed by
the scared-lOoking landlady The COPS
gazed sympatheticaIly at the ambitious
young woman for moment.
Never youse mind, Aggie-we'll
take youse Were youse1I git taken
care of all right, an trig enough said |
one of the cops. soothingly, and then
he three of them picked her up and. |
struggle as she would, carried her be- |
ow to the waiting ambulance. All |
he way down the stairs she tried to |
ell the policemen that they were maxi !
ng an awful mistake, for which they |
would be sorry for the remainder of |
heir lives.
Well, cops life is full o. mistakes |
iladys," the boss cop of the three would |
epiy, comtortingly, and in kindly tone, |
n reply to these remOnStrances.
When the young woman, who had thus |
,een forcibly removed from her lodging |
hrough the instrumentality of an alarm |
d landlady. finally reached the hospital |
he was able to convince the medical in /
Iv1dualS who took charge of her there |
hat she had only been rehearsing Ter |
ines when so incontinently grabbed and |
PRESENTLY her manager arrived and clinch-
d the situation for her.
The frequency with which these errors
s to the rehearsalS have occurred has
auSed quite few of the sure-enough law
grapes, even when caught red-handed,
n the plea that they were rehearsing"
pool room for both sexes was raided
nd captured by the police short time
go The outfit was installed in the spa
ious parlor of a brownstone house con-
en1ently near to Broadway in the Ten
erloin. When the police rushed into the
lace the manager of the plant rushed Up
} them with uDlifted hand.
What do you mean by breaking up
his scene?' he demanded imperiousiy |
These people of mine are rehearsing the
reat second act of The Ponies that's
II. Now. run away and sell your papers
nd let us alone, See?''
However. the raiders refused to be-
eve the statement of the annoyed man.
ger of The Ponies and the whole
liant, with the performers" had to go
Ito the wagon