The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-07

have sufaced for Bayonne that trouble
some night.
MrS. Eta Broun. the abused wife CMrs,
Policeman George Smith In everyday hfe),
staggers in with a black eye n weeping
bitterly, Tom Brown. the wife beater
policeman George Williams), has rolled
home with . peach and banged the lady
Sergt. Schmidt touches a button on his
desk and m Offer NOonda lplayed
by ofloer Noonan,, who starts when he
secs the ladv's smoked lamp.
in our city OF Bayonne7" Then Sergt.
Schmidt gets of one OF Z. Macbeth Grit
films best lines as he shouts In O voice like
thunder: yes, ofioerl Even the brutes
cherish their females. 1t remains for
man alone TO beat down the most delicate
flowers that God ever placed upon the fair
green bosom OF mother earthl Go with
this woman and bring the brute in"
Oh. thank you. kind officer" cries the
beaten flower. There are noble men alive
But il you get that miserable Brown | hopa
Judge Lazarus will give him a year"
That being one on the Judge, who sits
right in the audience, it's up 10 him to turn
around and smile or all hands. He shakes
his fist at f. Macbeth Griffin and pretends
TO be indignant because Griffin ran him in
the play, but you can see with half an eye
that the Judge isn't sore at adjust dckled.
Then Is1dcs, the old clothes man, comes
in with a piokaninny that bias been left with
him by it's mothar' WIN forgot to come
back.
Take il home.- says Sergt. Schmidt.
Il daren't, My wife would think I'm ly-
ing" says Isaacs. and maybe chat doesn't
make EN- laugh.
Pdtrolmdn G. Otto. adequately played by
Otto who is 0 feet 81. inches in his bare
feet n the tallest thing In Bayopne ex-
cept the tanks. brings in a lost child. Does
he have to go back pounding the sidewalks9
No, stree! The sergeant says, Take her
over on the couch, officer. and sing her to
sleep" Glow. .weepy music and 9Th" Three
Dioky Birds by 0tto.)
The lost child wants to go right to sleep,
but the good. kind officer says: Little one.
amt you forgot something' Didn't you
forget to say your prayers2 No little boy
or girl can GO to sleep here without saying
their prayers. Now repeat after me: oh,
thou God. nearest my prayer, keep me in
Thy watch and care. Let Thy bright angels
pure and mild. hover near a little child -
That is about all except that somebody
telephones the sergeant that a burglar is
trying 10 break into Mrs. Vreeland's, and
the sergeant is about to send a man when
Officer Coldhdn telephones he is on the
spot and has pinched the burglar, It's a
good thing Petey Marvin didn't get the
job, because they certainly are rough on
punch and hammer the luckiess crook until
the audience fairly shiver and women all
over the house whisper: -0hl Oil Poor
thingl Amt it drett,l2" Then they meas
ure him by the Bertillon system with
Griffin improvements) and thrust him into
a darkened cell. according to j prompt
er's book.
Then they form the relief, everybody
~saluting everybody else. and with a right
face. forward, guide left, march, the versa
tile police force Of Bayonne marches out
TO real business. and a good part of the
audience crowds f.. Macbeth Griffin into
a corner of Dicks to tell him he missed his
calling and to buy.