Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-16
AMNESTY FOR HAWK
Mans Hand Stayed Against
Hiqhborn Freebooter of Air.
HE is A PEREGRINE FALCON
Rara Avis Is Fearless in Attack and
Home Is Wide World.
HIS PERSON TO BE RESPECTED
Police Forbidden to Harm Him-All
Plans to Destroy Baron
Called OFF.
HE is A PEREGRINE FALCON
HIS PERSON TO BE RESPECTED

The freebooter may kill ard poach with
out let or hindrance. No mans hand
shall stay him. Too highborn is ne for
human vengeance.
Baron Rob Roy Of the Gray Tower. ex-
allied above human justice, ruthless muir
derer OF innocent carrier pigeons: wicked
assailant Of Muggins, pet cat Of the Post
Office department, the willy brown hawk
whom neither dynamite nor any tried
means Of destruction has thus far been
able to subdue, he is An outlaw no longer.
The brown baron is now free to come
and go at will. He may feast and fatten
without fear upon the choicest Of carrier
pigeons and other feathered wanderers
or the air. He may even swoop down, II
he likes. and carry Muggins off TO his
high perch I'm the gray tower and de-
YOUR him piecemeaL
Instead Of hiding behind the shelter OF
blind towers, he may ply his bonded
vocation openly in the broad light OF day.
Even the blue-coated sentinels that guard
the peace OF the city are forbidden to lift
hand against him. Minions Of government
are warned to respect his person.
Highborn Freebooter Of Air.
An enterprising and well informed news
paper man, attracted by the antics of the
baron. and with the keen instinct of his
profession that bade him probe deeply into
the history Of the feathered marauder. has
discovered and proclaimed that Rob Roy
Ia not common thief and murderer. He
is not even a common hawk
What he really is has been procla ed
in such mysteriously scientific terms by
the biological department of this great
government as to awe all who dared raise
a hand against the bird.
The President r attention. II is docia red
was called to the bird many months ago
by the birdologists. who described II TO
him as a species of the peregrine falcon
or duck hawk. or wandering falcon, a true
type Of the falcon. The post Office bird is
a cosmopolitan type, absolutely fearless in
attack and a bird growing somewhat
rare.
Plans to Destroy Him Of.
J. Eakin Gadsby. who. it is said, was to
take a shot at the baron this morning.
regardless of consequences, did not shoot.
J. T. Money OF the District electric rail-
way commission. who wanted to snare
him with series of owl traps and shoot
him he labored heavily in the air. has
turned his thoughts to the District street
railway situation and given up his vain
desire
The gentleman from Georgia who sug-
gested feeding fowls on nux vomica. to be
in turn fed to Rob Roy. will not find his
remedy tried in this instance. The col
ored man whose life was to be jeopardized
in the effort to catch the baron with a
fishhook and line will not be forced to
do the task or lose-his job.
Rob Roy, the brown baron of the gray
tower. is today free to do he will. TO
roam as he likes, and to devour what he
may. The hand of man is stayed against
him. and henceforth he is not only not to
be molested. but to be Respected. nay.
honored, in the pursuit of his unfettered
career.
He Is ''rara avis bird of pedigree.
Ia noble all too rare in this worka da V
world Regardless of the Constitution and
class distinction. he is henceforth to be
hailed as a falcon of rare distinction. and
a unique possession of the capital of the
nation