The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
RESCUINC The COMPTROLLER.
RELAYS or DETECTIVES CALLED
TO ST. ANDREU'S DINNER.
Youns MAJ IN The Outskirts. Who Hasa ''o'u
Badge Marked Comptrorler Was Active
IN Directing Operations. hut Everybody
bnr the Police Has Forgotten DetalIs.

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but The Police Has Forgotten Details
, IL was about time for tie cold gray dawn
of the morning after to put in its appear
nnce at the Tenderloin police station yester-
! dav morning and things were very dull.
Sergeant Mccain had just booked a drunk
| and d~isorderlv, and resting the other elbow
on the desk was dreaming again when the
telephone bell rang
Hello! This is Headquarters, said the
voice. Some one who says he sComptroller
Metz or Comptroller Metz's friend. l can't
! make out which, wants a couple Of detectives
sent to The Waldorf in a hurry. Visions
of the man who can hold up the payroll
mingled with McCann's dreams and nc sent
Detectives Ryan and Shiblcs out on the
double quick. They reached the Waldorf
in record time aud rushed in 10 rescue the
Comptroller.
Il don't know lust what Don It was We
butted into. explained one Of the detectives
10 a reporter Yesterday. The Waldorf n
nv grub place anyway. but the room seemed
full of ioy and we we're met by a calm young
man who explained that he was the Comp
| troller's friend When we asked what was
I'D he pulled out a chamois skin case and
flashed a badge on us. What kin Of abadge!
Why II was gold and looked like a captains
badge. only the raised letters said Comp
~troller.'
You see that" inquired the calm young
man. Well. you sit here. We may need
I you
When the detective insisted that he and
his companion must be told what they were
! wanted for the young man. who Is described
-. A. F.-t - NTH a annhV Conn
I plexion and a dress suit became very serious
and mysterious. As the detective continues
the tale, ne said:
You'd better call your captain in a
hurry: I tell you this for your own protec-
ton; CAN the captain in a hurry
The detectives declined to call the cap
tain for their protection and demanded
that since the call had come in Comptroller
AIetz's name they be taken TO the Comp
troller al once. .
There didn't seem 10 be anything doing"
explains the detective, and the young
man with the badge kind o lost interest
in ne. We weren't losing any in him. how
ever. and kept close by when he wandered
into another room through a glazed door.
Then we started in to find the Comptroller
They took us into another room and intro
duced us TO a nan who said he was Mr..
Mets. Before We could get acton the
VII AANl bANNNt ~ INAH Ah@ f~@A
the Comptroller's neck, II 1t was the Iomp-
| troller, and whispered something. Then
the man who had been introduced as Mr..
Metz looked UP and smiled.
well, who's the Joke on he asked. |
told him that we had come over from the
! house in answ er 10 a call for detectives
which came in the Comptroller's name.
The man smiled again and said:
~ gIess the jokes on him, pointing TO
the young mar who had whispered 10 him.
You'd better arrest him..
There didn't seem to be anything doing,
and they seemed to be trying 70 put the
joke on us. 40 after talking with the house
detective we beat il back. As we were
going out we ran across the young man,
the Comptroller's' friend.
Look here he exclaimed. you rsmem-
Dor that I'm right next 20 the head man and
| can hold up your pay. You were an hour
and a half late In getting here, anyway"
On their way back TO the Tenderloin sta
ton Ryan and Shibles met Coleman and
Campazzi, two more Of the lenderloin's
under forced draugbt. Ryan and Shibles let
their friends go, and, arriving at the station
house, learned from the excited sergeant
that there had been q hurry call for two
more detectives TO rescue the Comptroller.
Later Coleman and Canpazzi returned
TO report that the -Comproller's FRIEND
had one away In a cab and there was
nothing doing"
Comptroller etz wa a guest at the dinner
of the ST. Andrew a Society at the Waldorf
Astoria on Friday night, but yesterday
neither the Comptroller nor his secretary
could remember anything OF a young mar
with a Comptrollers badge and a sense of
humor who made trouble for the Tender
lOin OODs.