The Washington herald., 1907-01-26
TAKES ONION; GETS A LEMON
Policeman Waring Found Guilty Of
Unbecoming Conduct.
Removes Vegetable from Fourteenth
tendant to Hunt Warmer Cline.

The opioa that Crossing Policeman r
J.. Warning took from the fruit stand cor
ner Fourteenth and streets northwest
has turned into "a lemon of such acidity
as 10 send cold shiyers down the back of
the District police department
The matamorphosis OF the fruit that
Policeman Waring garnered from the
fru.,staud OF one Frank from a savory.
succgleUt onion into tart. sharp lemon
has been slow and painful process. the
cuusuumation of which has Just been an
uounced 10 the decision of the police trial
board. which has found Warning guilty u
conduct uub-coming an officer.
The specific charge Of which Waring
was found guilty IS that con or about the
hour Of O'Clock D. IN, October T. 1876.
be did take an onion from a fruit stand
at the southwest corner of Fourteenth
and 4 streets northwest. and when re-
queSted los Louis r Coulter. the man IN
charge Of tho stand. 10 pay for the onion
or put it back, did say To said Coulter,
You go % d.. and walk away without
replacing or paying for the onion"
The line of defense of the policeman
with an onion tooth OF upon which Of
the two counts iu the charge the police
trial board laid most stress is not dl-
vuiged IN The findings. Policeman Warning
I'm "a letter 20 the superintendent of police
admits that he removed the onion from
the landscape az L and Fourteenth
streets. but that as he did so he told
Coulter. who was only temporarily in
charge of the stand 10 inform the pro-
prietor of the change that he had
wrought
As has been stated, the findings are de-
dcieHt iu satisfying details. and shed no
light on the question whether Policeman
Waring sliced the concentric bulb on the
street. thereby transferring TO Fourteenth
street northwest the atmosphere and
aroma of Louisiana avenue around Center
Market. or whether he carried the pun
gent breath home 20 his loved ones
Bc that as ii may, the temptation Of
Warning. Ike the temptation OF Eve. LEFT
in its wake a world of trouble. Besides
resulting in the policeman's conviction on
the charge of conduct unbecoming an Off
GER il has raised an issue of veracity and
integrity. for in his letter appealing from
the findings Of the board, Waring says:
when / started to leave, Coulter ac-
Costed me saying ! should not take the
onion without paying for il. I would not
give him Franks money. I said 10 him,
You skip to h. and left him"
Commissioner West. after carefully
scrutinizing the lemon which the police
trial board evolved out of Warnings onion,
recommended yesterday that the police
mans appeal be granted and that Waring
be directed TO submit In fun TO the Com
missioners the grounds upon which the
findings of the court should be set aside
What lends added interest to the case IS
that only recently the citrus experts OF
the Department of Agriculture grew &
whole basket full Of lemons on an orange
tree. The feat was heralded as a great
achievement but there are partisan
friends of the police board who contend
that Mai. Sylvesters experts in producing
"a lemon where but an onion grew have
crowded. Secretary Wilson's experts off
the boards