The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-16

ACT 1.
The interior OF Police Headquarters in
Jersey City. Cops in that smart hunting
jacket effect which they wear in Jersey,
singing a chorus entitled Sleep" Enter
MeMurtTy, the new cop He has just Sc
cured his place without a pull, which shows
that he is the hero. To dispe any further
doubt he sings a solo, Of which the first
stanZa runs:
into the station once they brought woman old
and gray
Her conduct was dsorderly-drinE always acts
that way:
Her tauered dress was old and worn and shame
IN her seemed dead
The roundsman he was rough 10 her until the ser.
geant said:
CHORUS.
She may DO some good girl's mother.
Though fallen through drink and low;
Perhaps she's son or brother,
Who'd grieve n you treated her so:
Ehe once was an innocent schoolgirl,
She once knew a sisters care.
Some girl may call her mother: Jack.
OF hurting her beware,
When the applause dies down, enter the
villain. He is dragging the little che-ild.
ARREST this brat' says the villain this
part is TO be played by a shooHy rounds
mani and he rolls his eyes and a cigarette
at one and the same time. What forl'
says the sergeant
tThieve-r-ryl' says the villain. Il saw
her lift that 81 600 purse which was reported
missing to-day from Schulzs storel'
1T must be sol say the cops aside. The
loss was reported to-day at roll call
sHoldl' says MeAurtry, the hero. 1T Is
not true. / saw this man skulbng about
Schulzs this morning.
Then Why should he accuse this child1'
inquiries the sergeant.
'Why1' says AoMurtTv, as he raises
bis club TO heaven. -Because she is his
dAuRhterl'
TSbieau. villain under arrest, glaring at
AeAurtry. Curtain.
ACTu.
The villain, who has escaped through his
pull, IL in the thieves den on - street.
The villain is a New Yorker, by the way.
The thieves are planning burglary, but
that young cop AcAuTtTV-curse himl-is
pressing them close. They must abandon
the place and burn the evidence.
Aye, and I'll burn other evidenced says
the villain. The woman and the brat
know too much" By these terms he refers
II we murder them, there may be marks
Of violence. II lie better that they should
be burned accidentally in the FIRE"
The villains, with q low ha-ha, agree
So the villain invites the wife and child
In TO have drink-to show that there are
no Ill feelings. OF course the drink Is
doped. He offers the che-ild milk, not
booze. Even the most hardened New
Jersey villain wouldn't think OF Offering
rum TO a che-ild. But the ohe-ild is wise
Il shall not drink that milk, she says,
Il don't love youi think you are a bad
papal' But the villain has all kinds OF
games up his sleeve. The gang seizes the
wife and ohe-ild, soaks them under the nose
with a spongeful OF ohloroform and lights
hn raA On 10
sizz, and soon the back drop ia soiled with
lycopodium smoke. The fire alarm Is
heard outside. Thewife wakes and screams.
IL Ia almost too late. But he is herel Bang
drops the back sash, and McAurtry the cop
bursts through the flames A quick change,
and the new scene shows McMurtrp
climbing down the fire escape with the
wife and child over one shoulder and the
entire evidence in the case in his other
hand.
ACT III
In one OF the splendid homes Of Jersey
City the beautiful Lillian Fern, daughter
Of a proud, patriCian Jersey family, has
lost her jewels. AcMuTtrv, now detective
sergeant, is helping her recover them.
Did you have any visitors here that
night?7 asks McMUrtTp.
-Only Mr.. Rdns0me, the gentleman to
whom am enga ged says Lillian. This is
his card now. Marie, show him up It's
plain to he seen, though, that she'd rather
talk 10 the handsome young cop. The
Villain enters with fulsome compliment
on his lips.
who Is this fellow. Miss Lillian, and what
Il he doing here?" asks the villain.
THAT fellow, as you call him, Mr.. Ran
some, is a brave. true man, who Is helping
me, says the beautiful Lillian.
Yes, and | arrest you for the robbery
says McMuTtrV the CCp.
And while McMurtrV is reaching for the
darbies 10 mako sure Of the villain, II is
as plain as day that Lildn Is making her
choice between the crook and the cop,
and it's Just as plain whom she II take.
But with a swift motion the villain draws
q revolver and covers them both.
you shall both disl' he Kisses. @You,
geyul, because you love this man, and he
because he has bounded mel and he levels
bis baritone gun at Lillian and fires. But
McMuTtrV has leaped be fore her and taken
the bullet in his own breast.
The villain jumps through the portisres
and Is gone.
You heard what he saidl" feeblv muir
murs the coppered cop. is Il true, Lillian
Il Is, Terence cried Lillian, forgetting
that he is wounded In her eaReTness to clasp
his handsome form. This Is one Of the most
rapid love passa Res known TO the drama.
That, says the cops, IL as far az the chief
has got There are several more things
which he must do 10 that play before he can
finish Il of with Terence McNurtrV pro-
noted 70 a captains job for bravery.
He's got to polish OF the villains wife and
child, who have been lost sight Of In tho JOY
Of Terence and Lillian. just now he Is
thinking Of having the villains wife APP
pointed police matTon. He's got to dis
pose Of the villain and IL trying TO find soma
hetter and more picturesque manner than
the gallows.
That isn't the way Il goes at all, said
I hi'f Murphy when this synopsis was shown
him, But as Chief Murphy wouldn't trot
~ Il
j. left TO suppos, that lie IL denying the
bright child Of his intellect through his
own excessive modesty.
Jockey Charged with COnterfeitinE.
John j. kearns, p years old o jockey