Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-26
M!ETUCHEnH HAD
NEW MYSTERY
Police Force Investigated
Fresh Grave in Woods.
Special 70 tAe EVENING NEWS

oFStsRt 70 TIC - I'm INV NEWS,
Metuchen, Nov. 26>-Metuchen
has a police force. or course, that is
not news in itself but you see the
police force ef the DraIny borough is
an extraordinary one. Besides Col.
C c. Weber, the military recorder
and Justice OF the peace, there is
Chief T~oaratt, otherwise known as
Lynx Eyed Enos, and his faithful
right-hand man, Officer Patrick
Henry Koran, as well as a dozen,
more or less, just plain ordinary
special cops, who are termed mar
shals for style. Of late Paddle"
has noticed a scarcity of tgamps and
plain DRINKS. By the way, he makes
a speciality of this class of offenders.
Things were kind of quiet in the
police line until a day or two ago
when a certain wise citizen stumbled
over a newly laid grave. Mr.. Wise
Citizen thought it rather suspicious
so he went straight to Patrick Henry
with the intelligence. This Is the
Officer Koran tells it:
"You see it was this way" and he
stopped for a fresh piece of cut plug.
"One'iv our taxpayers give me the
ZIP lAdI IICIC WdS SoIACbhlHB WfpuS
at Paramount Park, which is in my
territory although a mile or more of
me bate. This citizen says, says he,
there is a newly made grave in the
woods wit fresh blood all around 1t.
/ says to meself, under me breath,
bloody mystery must be probed
to the bottom. / have always be-
and Paddy squared off until
three brass buttons took leave from
new uniform, 81 have always be-
laved that when an officer of the law
gets a confidenshual tip that 1t is
good policy to kape it we'll under his
hat and SO / says nothin' to my su-
perior officer, Chief F~ouratt, but in
the performance of me duty / calls
upon another trusted officer of the
law and armed with a pick and two
big shovels W. bate it for the big
woods, me pal going n way and me
another so as not to arouse too much
excitement in the town on Thanks
givin' Day. And shure when we
reached the most dismal and lone
some spot in the big timber we came
a newly made grave. I left me
foot rule behind me- but as luck
would have it l had me police shoes
On and they are exactly twelve inch
es long. With me shoes l measured
the grave and 1t was just six foot
five and a quarter inches long and
foot, eight inches wide. Says l
to my side pardner, there has been a
case of foul play here and this blood
is fresh. It's human blood at that
and we must find the guilty vans as
would do such a dastardly deed. So
we peeled our coats and nothwith-
standin' there was turkey waitin'
home for us we set to diggin'. We
dug for four hours and then says I
to my brother officer. the heathan
sure must have buried the body in
quick lime" .Ond here Paddy stop
ped talking. When asked for furth-
er particulars he looked wise but
said nothing. rs 5 IS
In the meantime the Mystery of
Fairmount Park" had reached the
ears of "Old Sleuth" Fouratt. Lynx
Eyed Enos has been at this police
business many, many years and his
before him was at one time
chief Of the New Brunswick force.
Enos can fairly smell a clue but
somehow he did not take any stock
in this latest mystery. Enos is a
Sherlock Holmes and it's
said that he had a sneaking suspi-
cion of the still hunt being conduct
ed by his right-hand man. He said
not a word, however, only smiled a
broad smile every time anybody men,
toned that newly made grave. 1t
was some little time before the truth
leaked out, but it leaked. The grave
the body Of a poor old
donkey that had been a family pet
and after its demise was given a re-
spectacle burial in a spot selected
especially for respectable donkeys. !
The blood stains were accounted for
by the fact that the donkey being old
enough was given the Osler treat
ment. The treatment didn't take so
his wner helped him out of this
wofM with a couple of soft blows
with an axe.
Paddy is back on his beat again
but somehow his chest seems to have
shrunk and his head to have Drop
ped. TITS said that plain police bust
ness suits him better than detective
work. According to Paddy's friends
if you don't wanttto be guilty of dis
orderly conduct don't mention any
thing about a newly made grave
anywhere within three miles of
officer Koran.