Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-18
900 WEEP WITH AUGUSTUS
FOR HE CERTAINLY HAS TRoU.
BLES BY THE BUNCH.
Department Of Justice Asked to Help
This Perfectly Good But
Much-Abused Cook.

Chief Clerk Grin j. Field OF the Depart
ment OF Justice is struggling with thirty
five pages OF closely typewriter manu-
script. in which Augustus J. Aiken OF
Boston, Mass, has set forth wildly his
troubles with his family and several penal
institutions in and around the Hub. Aiken.
according to his own statement. has
asked for justice in Boston in every court
from the police tribunal upward. but has
received only a lemon. and asks Mr.
Field what the United States is going to
do about il. In Mr. Bonaparte's absence
Mr. Field has turned the letter over to
his legal assistants.
1t seems that for nine long years Aiken
followed the sea. having wife ashore
and. in the course of events. several
chiicren. After many adventures in many
lanes he settled dowyn to a nice berth In
the kitchen OF a Boston hotel. acting as
chef and seeing that the decks of the
cuisine were kept shipshape. everything
piped down fast after mess and that side
lights were lit after shutdown. So fond OF
his family was he that he often brought
them food-this according to the state
ment In his letter.
Hooked to a New Woman.
But Mrs. Aiken refused to cook the food.
and from that time on there was war to
tine knife. Mrs. Aiken treated her hus-
band scandalOusly. and he says she fire.
quently forced him TO make the beds
IF there is any Justice In this land,
where is it?" shrieks Aiken's typewriter.
His police experience began when he
undertook TO chide his eldest daughter
for going to the theater. That must be
an awful crime in Boston. for when she
differed from the opinion he undertook TO
change her mind under the influence OF
spanking. She objected SO strongly
that two policemen came In and wanted
to know what was the matter These
policemen, says Aiken. were bad men.
One of them. named keef. he had seen
coming out of an old cobbler shop on his
beat, land who knows but what he was
taking a drink At the same time?"
From that time on his life was con-
tinual torment. Aiken tells Mr.. Fields
that his wife threw fiatirons and conk
shells and drove him out of the house.
but that he would return ever and anon.
bringing her pears for which re paid "a
cents a dozen. Every week he would
bring the children clothes, until they had
enough for an arctic expedition.
Punched, by Heck!
The troubles finally wound Up in Mrs.
Aiken having her husband locked up for
non support. A probation officer named
Mann came on the scene about that time
and succeeded I'm impressing the judge
with several facts with which Aiken fis-
agreed, and since that time Mann has
died. Aiken solemnly tells the Depart
ment of Justice that IL Is direct Judg-
ment of heoVen upon man OF such great
injustice.
Aiken got eight months in the Deer
Island house of correction. where he was
made chef for the other prisoners and
did his work so well that Deer Island
received great benefit from his presence.
When he finally got out he revisited the
scenes of his former domestic troubles
and encountered his son. VINO must be a
wonder, for. says Aiken, he struck me
in the face and kicked me in the back
at one and the same time.
So there u is. What is the Department
of Justice going to do about IL? That V
what Mr.. Aiken wants TO know.