The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-05
PRIVATE POLICE STATION, SIR.
WATZEM OF TEXAS SAYS HE
WAS TAKEN THERE.

Cave bail, o 6lS I'm Cash and q 817k
Diamond stud-Had q Scrap ON Broad
way After q waiter Had Ruined his
Temper No Complainant In Court.
Edward A. watzem Of San Antonio, Tex,
travelling freight agent OF the International
and Great Northern Railroad in that State.
arrived in town over the New York Central
on Monday night. He is a stalwart son OF
the South and stands o feet ? in his shoes.
He wore when he arrived a secret society
emblem valued by himself at $500.
Watzem soon struck the Great White Way.
Then he went into a Forty-second street
restaurant. There he was served with
%soup-this In his own ~story-and then the
waiter asked him in broken English whether
he would lave steak or pork chops. He
declined TO have either and, he says. the
wait err said something that down South no
gentleman listens to without action. II
was an invitation to go to a warm place.
Il knocked the fellow down." aid Wat
zem. Then the proprietor explained to
me that the waiter was just trying to ask
me what l wanted. The waiter ~apologized
and, do you know, l was really sorry !
knocked him down"
Elated over his encounter with the waite
the Texan walked leisurely down Broad
way. A young fellow on the street said
something offensive to him n Watzem
sent him sprawling on the sidewalk. A
uniformed person, Watzem says, walked up,
grabbed him by the collar and marched
him down broadway. They arrived at a
mysterious doorway, where the uniformed
individual pulled out a key, opened the door
and pushed Watzem in before him and
firmly locked the door behind them.
Here Watzem, mistaking the room for
a private police ~station-he says he SUI
posed in a city like New York every police
man had a private station or ofice-was
told that he was under arrest and that
unless he could furnish bail he would be
locked up all night. He protested. in vain.
Finally he suggested that he give cash
bail. Finding Sl6.5O in his pockets, he
proposed to give SIS TO the uniformed in
dividual with a diamond shirt stud valued.
again by himself, at S22S. This bail was
accepted and Watzem was released after
being cautioned 10 appear at the Jeffer-
son Market police court yesterday morn-
ing for a hearing.
TO the police court he came bright and
early. He waited all the morning for his
case to be called. Then at the noon recess
he told his story TO Magistrate Wahle.
He was vague in his ideas as 20 where the
room TO which he had been taken, and which
he persisted in speaking of as a private
police station, was situated. He knew the
names of no streets in the city, he said,
hut was sure the spot where he knocked
the man down was mot above four squares
from the depot"
John Foley, the jefferson Market bridge
policeman, spent two hours yeste rday
afternoon with Watzem hunting for the
mysterious doorway, and then the search
was turned over to Capt. Schlottman OF
the Tenderloin station. At a late hour
last night no trace of the supposed police
man had been found, and Edward A. Wat
zem, travelling freight agent Of the Inter
national Great Northern Railroad, was
freely expressing his desire to knock down
the man the first time he saw / m