Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-01
A "KNOCK-TEST."

"knock" at a seaside hotel, as framed up
Inv a washington man who, having been
through the mill, knows whereof he
frames:
9 a. MIR. Hojack didn't get in I'M
til two o'clock this morning, hear"
9:15 a. m.-"Say, Hojack must have
had a beaut on last night. My wife says
she heard he stumbled in at three o'clock
this morning"
9:25 a. m.-"Did you hear about that
misunderstanding Mr.. Hojack? They
say he was in a dreadful condition when
he CROPPED his way in long after four
o'clock this morning"
10 a. m.-"D'je hear about Hojack?
NV wife says she heard he had a mix-up
with a cop on the Boardwalk last night.
Story is that the cop wanted him to go
to his hotel and sleep it off, and Hojack
got swelled up about it and hit the cop
and got raped pretty hard himself.
1910 a. m.-"Why, the very idea.
goodness gracious sakes! shouldn't
think the proprietor of this hotel would
care to have such abandoned creatures
about his place! To whom do | refer?
Why. to that Mr.. Hojack, of course!
They say that he was all but helpless
when he staggered in at broad daylight
this morning, and that he threatened to
punch the night clerk, and you know
what an inoffensive man the night clerk
is, and what an understood man he is,
too. The id-ee!"
1920 a. m.-"Sh-sh-shi Don't men
ton a word of it, but l believe the pro-
prietor is going to have that fast Mr..
Hojack on the carpet when he comes
down, for having made such a row when
he came in last night, or this morning,
rather. l wouldn't be surprised if the
proprietor asked for his room, so |
wouldn't! They say he was throwing
his hat at everybody on the Boardwalk
about two O'Clock this morning"
IL a. m.-"There's that Mr.. Hojack 60
ing down the steps. He doesn't look as if
he'd been through such a disgraceful
time of it last night and this morning,
does he? But some men have the knack
of looking just as fresh as pansies after
conducting themselves like hyenas, any
howl"
11:20 a. MI wonder if that Mr.. Ho-
jack is really an unmarried man, after
all? Doesn't he look like a married man
to you?"
1880 a. m.-"Sh-sh! Now, / wouldn't
have anybody know that | said so for the
worlds, but Linear that that Mr.. Hojack,
who's been pretending to all of the girls
down here that he's a bachelor, has a wife
and child in Washington"
1885 a. m.-"Now, who in the world
could suppose that a man would be SO
wickedly deceitful! He has a frank
enough face, too, and yet l have it on the
very strongest authority that Mr.. Ho-
jack, who's been flying around here try
ing to make folks believe that he's I'M
married and who fought four or five po-
licemen on the Boardwalk at four o'clock
rested-I am told by persons who surely
ought to know that he has a wife and four
children in Washington"
1870 p. m.-"Well, mercy on us!
Who'd have even dreamed of such a
thing. And the mar with such a can
did n about him, too! OF course,
we've all known since he's beer here that
he drinks excessively and stays out I'M
til all hours of the night-morning,
rather-but who'd have thought of this?
What? Don't you know? Why, they
say that that Hojack person-oh, yes, I'll
admit that he's fair-looking-they say
that he recently deserted a wife and six
children in Washington-left 'em in
actual poverty and restitution, they say:
Did you ever in your born days?"
1 p. m.-"B'jee. they tell me that Ho-
jack belongs to the spliced variety, after
all! My wife says that she heard on the
porch awhile ago that he recently shook
a wife and eight children in Washing
ton. Young-looking duck to've brought
up a bunch like that, isn't hep"
1:30 p. m.-"Well, deary me, we won't
be able to trust anybody we meet after
awhile, will we? Who in the wide world
would eve have thought that that Mr..
Hojack was a bigamist?"
2 p. m.-"Now, if you ever breathed a
word of it, Clara. I'd never forgive you,
but Maude told me awhile agothat she'd
heard from one of her gentlemen friends
who knows positively that Mr.. Hojack-
know that big, swaggering man who is
said to have almost bitten the ear off a
policeman on the Boardwalk last night
they say that he came down here to es-
cape being arrested for bigamy and that
he has a wife in Washington and another
one in Baltimore, and lots of children by
both wives"
3 p. m.-"Uh-huh, that's what they
tell me. They say that Hojack's been
making a speciality of clipping with rich
girls and marrying them for the swag,
and that he deserts them as Dol as he
nails the coin. My wife says she heard
that he's only down here to keep out OF
the hands of the police. It's a wonder
he wouldn't be pinched in n hurry, at
that, seeing that-so I'm told-he has
wives in Washington, Baltimore. De-
troit, New York, Duluth, Ypsilanti, Har.
~yct,,r~ ,-I MI aaIta nfHatfa mia.