Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-15

tleman, and he listened to my story
4 with grave and studied frown. !
pleaded my case with all the earnest
ness at my command and finished by
asking him if he thought the law
would reach monkey of course |
added, If you are believer in the Oar
winian theory that man sprang from
the monkey, the law might be con-
strued to apply to our little cigarette
fend.'
Police Chief Believes In Darwin.
"That Darwinian business came in
just right. The chief swelled all up
with pride and said that he had been
a great, student of Darwin and was
fully in accord with him.
"Of course, admitted the logic of
his reason, but asked If there wasn't
something that could be done.
"'It's just like this said the chief.
The laws of this state must be obeyed
and l am going to do all in my power
to see that they are obeyed. On the
other hand, we don't wish to be hard
with visitors in the state; 1t is not our
desire to work hardship on Mr. Hag-
enbeck nor any of his people, or-er
monkeys, so would suggest that you
keep the matter as quiet as possible
and when the monkey smokes that you
| hang piece of canvass up in front OF
the cage, so that the people will not
see her smoking
81 seized his hand He had not only
done all that had asked, but he had
moreover, given me a new suggestion
The canvas was Just the thing
Mr.. Maddy smiled with delight at
the memory of it all, passed the CT
gars again and continued:
"Of course the evening newspaper
men were right after me into the
much to their establishment, for they
had expected to come out and brand il
as a fake by the morning paper. In
stead, the chief gave them some
cracking good interviews expoundine
upon the Darwinian theory and his
desire not to allow the new law to
work hardship on the visitors in the
state. He even said that in meas
ure, cigarette smoking became a hab
| it like morphine and that it was dan
gerous to take the little paper rolls
away from either man or monkey toe
suddenly.
go, 1t was great stuff, and it went
all over the country Even the con
sentative old Associated Press
handled it and then came demands fol
pictures Of the monkey. had to wire
to Mr.. Bower our press agent with the
show and have him send me some
monkey pictures.
"The boys with the show followed
the chiefs advice and put a canvas
over the cage, a cage, should say
to be more correct. Some one put 6
sign up, Smoking Monkey and the
crowds gathered, everyone longing tt
catch glimpse of the little fiend. Of
course they did not, but they did smell
cigarette smoke.
you see, we had several cigarette
smokers with the show and 1t was dol
lars to doughnuts that they would BIZ
arrested if they were caught smoking
so when fellow wanted to smoke hi
would go around behind the cage
stick his head inside and impersonats
the monkey.
i The Fakes UndoIng.
4 "But the public demanded develop
ments In the strange case continued
Mr.. Maddy. drawing deep sigh ant
tossing his cigar away
4 II tried to fix up developments, ant
4 the developments proved the undoins
Of a grand story.
First, had attempts to arrest the
monkey in other towns They took bu
fairly well, and then l racked my
brains for something real good and ho
to give them. Finally it popped into
my head that the Darwinian bushes:
could be worked more and then-well
conceived the idea of having the mon
key sent out Of the state to avoid ar
rest. The remainder of the develop
ments' could not but follow-I would
have the governor of Indiana make re
QUESTION on the governor of Ohio fol
the little beast
Eyes, saw my weak point. l knew
there would be no use trying to estab
lish fact to base the story upor
through the offices of the chief execu
tives of the two states, as l had done
with the chief of police. The cover
nors would draw the line at that, Sc
did not try them l merely took
long chance. and tLen let the story o
the extradition go.
1T went. 1t went like the first ont
did, but it was short lived, as I feared
it would be. The next day the stor.
came from the governors Office that hi
knew nothing about the case, that i
was absurd, and branded it as can
ard
There was but one thing left to do
and did it. sacrificed the poor littl.
cigarette smoking monkey, the crea
ture of my imagination; I let her die {
natural DEATH
/ BELkNAP.