The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-18
KID HASSETT. LOCAL PUG, IS
 SENT TO JAIL
Didn't Make Good on Threat to Beat up
 a PUI.csman-Friends to the Rescue. Typical Low Brop is Hassett. But at thai
 lie Carries WaIop in Either S-eeve.

Kid Hassett, the promising young pugflist of the West End who has
 figured in a number of local sparring
 exhibitions, failed to make good his
 threat to beat up policeman last
 night. and today went to jail for 30
 days in consequence. When the news
 of the kids predicament spread
 through the West End among his ad-
 mirers, they at once began talk of
 getting up a benefit for him, to take
 his case to the highest courts in the
 lsnd if necessary to get him free.
 They claim the kid will not be fit when he gets out of duranee vile, and may have to go back to the grindstone for living instead of resuming his ex- hihitions of the manly art.
 The Kid left his home, 575 Gregory street, early last evening and made a round of a number of saloons where
 he is always- welcome guest. He
 took aboard more than he could we'll carry. John Barleycorn had him grog- gy before the evening was we'll under.
 way. In his peregr:nations about the West End, he encountered Patrolman
 Hassett's hair was combed down in to his eyebrows, his cap was drawn over one ear, his coat was flung open to the night breezes, and his only pro- colored shirt. Meeting him in a dark corner late at night you might feel Justified in shooting at sight. He was very apparently a bad man, and he gloried in his wicl.edness.
 Patrolman Anderson encountered Hassett not far from the Third pre- cinct station. Struck by the odd ap- pearance of the scrapper. he stopped to look him over. Hassett glared at him a moment then growled. "I don't know whether I'll let you live and suf- fer Or just kill you now he snarled as he surveyed Anderson. The cop took a firm hold on his nightstick at these words and approached the youth
 1T never liked a suuarehead.' con tfnued Hassett tHI think I'll bite your ear off, Anderson was not used to such talk and it disconcerted him bit. He cast about in the darkness and espied afar the shield of another copper, Buckley. With renewed cour- age he approa ched Hassett. The prize fighter squared off, but when Ander- son made display of his willow club, he stepped out of his fighting posture, resistance. he accompanied Anderson and Buckley to the third precinct sta ton. N
 adn this morning presented a sorry picture when arraigned before Judge Wilder in the city court room. Realiz- ing his error, he was rather penitent. but still maintained the air of a bold bad man. He talked out of a far cor ner of his mouth, bit his words off short, and even sassed the court a lit tie to show just how deeply he was steeped in wickedness.
 When Patrolman Anderson had told the court of Hassett's conduct, refus- ing to press a charge of resistance to an officer against him, the court found the prisoner guilty of both breach of the peace and drunkenness. So Has sett. who was broke. went back to his cell room while a crowd of young ad- mirers began to scheme ways and means of rescuing him from his plight. One of them asked for information as to how much his fine was. and on be- ing informed that the kid must go to jail IS well as pay fine. he out lined plan of action for the edifica- tton of his associates
 ofioer le'! Finnegan. E1a; ' .'Hassett's U good kid. but when he gets to 1appfn' up the studs. it's all off wit him. He's some scrapper, too.dat kid. It aint orter be out trainin' now.S He's got a lot O. chances. I don't know why de cops have to jump on good kid like dat anyway. He wouldn't a. hurt sons out tryin to do marathon. Well, if the kid was his pins all right, he'd give dat copper somethin' dat d make him t'ink he was walkin' in his s1eeo.'' II
 Then turning to his admfring asso+ ciates, the spokesman delivered an- the necessity for prompt and vigorous to rescue their hero from jail, and told them to rustic around for money to pay the kids fine, and then to plan a monster benefit for the prisoner. They neglected to apply to Superintendent Birmingham for per init for their contemplated exhibition before they left police headquarters, Or they might have adopted another plan ot action.
 Hassett weighed in at 1so pounds when he went through the office of inches tall and modestly disclaiming l credit for his pugilistic accomplish l ments, gave his occupation as la