The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-01
SPECTRE or WALDO STALKED.
DaRINe COP HAIED IT ~ TEiRS
TO 4 POIiCE rot MT.
Youna tso,el wine sIerher with . phort
badge Haunted Fast Ss'h street
pPrrtnct TIL size lBrcame Q sahara
to patPoimeu Points IN GenealOsy,

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taif the fun Of having n ,hirst has hem
denied the night patrolmen OF the Fast
Thirty fifth street station houSe durtng
the nae. wsek because u the persistent
rImor that has haunted the dormitories
that "Waldo'l git you ~ you don't watch
out"
When a policeman Thought II his duty TO
20 into the back door Of a saloon TO see that
the barkeep wasn't selling 70 minors. ten
chances TO one he would have to change his
mind whom he Al a youthful peraon near by
with a notebook and pencil, whose one aim
in life seemed to he to get the policeman's
number and write IL down.
Once In a while a cop had slightly better
luck. He ran across the young man with
the notebook Just after he had found out
sure enough that the barkeep was living
I'D to the spirit Of the law. These officers,
however, began to doubt the good quality
OF their luck when they found that instead
Of being compelled to hold their breath
Just for a few seconds while passing the
young man-nightstick idly swinging
they had to hold it for a block because he
sometimes walked along abreast with them
for that distance.
If 1 hadn't been a diver before I got
on the force" said one policeman yester-
day, "and taken lessons on the cornet be-
sides, I'd a bust Monday night Just after
slipped out O. Jimmies and that'kid with
the notebook stood right feminist me for
four solid minutes
Patrolman Hugh j. O'Donnell is a total
abstainer, both of duty and on. but owing
to the heartrending tales Of mental and
physical distress he had heard whispered
around the station house he decided early
Yesterday morning to arrest the boys size
police commissioners on sight as a common
| nuisance, sven at the risk of losing his star
About ten minutes after 1 yesterday morn
ing, O'Donnell grasped his opportunity
when he saw the youth standing at the cor
ner Of Third avenue and Thirty-seventh
street with the same old notebook and his
pencil poised all ready for the patrolman's
approach. O'Donnell asked him pleasantly
what he vas doing.
Il don't mind telling YOU was the an
deputies. and I'm assigned to see how the
policemen are doing their duty" and he
closed the book with a snap and stuck 1t in
his pocket. go
rising infection. well. il you're Waldo,
az the story goes, all l have to cay is that
the First Deputy Police Commissioner Of
little OF N'york has ehrunk some since
cav him last. In the meantime con-
tinued the patrolman personal---very., come
over to the station house and show me-"
At this crisis, O'Donnell Gays, the young
man showed a badge, which made him
stop and think a minute. He finally de-
cided to take the youthful spotter to the
station house. Before the desk the gold
shield dwindled into an old special officer's
badge. The young man was detaired for
the rest of the night and later was stood
up before the bench in the Yorkville police
court. Patrolman O'Donnell told Magis-
trate Steinert that the prisoner had beer
impersonating an officer.
The young man had seen q, great light
during the hours intervening, between bis
arrest and ~arraignment. He told The
Magistrate that he was Joseph Cassin, Il
years old. Of sl5 East Thirty-seventh street
and that he was employed as q wine checker
only joking with the policeman, anyway.
"Do you look upon it as a joke, asked
the Magistrate, "to pass yourself of as q
Cassin hung his head, and about this time