The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-22
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FOR HIS WIFE
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SChIuter
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pecial 70 the Daily Leader
Kansas City. Mo, Aug. -He
would not steal: he did not know
Chief OF Police Grifln was out or the
city aud he dld not know the chiei
did not have a dog, but his baby was
hungry, his wife was hungry and he
was hungry
That Is why Henry scnluter. 25
years old, went to the stall OF a.
Franz, meat dealer at the city mark
\ e. Yesterday moraing and told Franz
I that Chief Griffin had sent him there
to get meat for his dog
\ II II had been for somebody else be-
sides the chief of police maybe Franz
would NOT have handed ont an nice u
piece Of meat as he passed over the
counter to Schluter, 1t was not wnat
Is usually handed or, as dog meat.
III was nice big soup bone with a
lot Of meat ON It, and Schluter walk
ed waylwith 1t. He had not gone
far until Franz recollected that Chief
Griffin was away on vacation. He
overlook Schluter and called po-
liceman.
Lose Their Home
Schluter was arrested He was
taken into the North Side municipal
court and there told a story that won
for him the sympathy Of everybody in
the court room as Well as that Of the
Judge.
Schluter had been employed by a
railroad as d hostler in a roundhouse.
Two weeks ago he lost his job Up to
that time he lived at Fourteenth
street and the Paseo When he lost
his position he had to give up his
house and lost most OK his household
goods. Nobody offered him work or
help, There was nothing for him to
do but move.
With borrowed tent Sobluter took
his wife and their 15-m0nth-old baby
girl to the banks of the Missouri riv-
err where there was no rent to pay.
There was no room on the Kansas
City side of the river so Schuter took
his family over to the Clay county
side He pitched his tent among the
bushes at the north end of the Han
nibal pridge in d swampy place and
out OF the way of intruders.
Find His Story True
When Charlie sCiark, acting Judge
of the North Side municipal court IN
the absence OF Judge Burney heard
Schluter's story and had made an in
vestigation to see that il was true,
he discharged the man.
Police officers discovered the tent
at the north end OF the Hannibal
bridge, and there found Schluter's
wife and baby. The infant had been
until n
looked as though II had the most ylr-
ulent form Of smallpox.
When this condition had been re
ported back to the municipal court
George birmingham, an attorney tooN
Scbluter over to the market house
Here, we want some things, said
"and this man Is going
to carry them Give as a bushel of
potatoes, three dozen eggs, twenty.
eve pounds OF cornmeaL two pounds +
Of coffee, ten pounds OF sugar "a peek
,f apples, six loaves OF bread, a pecN /
pf beans, two pecks of onions, ten /
heads of cabbage, q watermelon, ten 4
bars of SOAP, FIVE pounds OF beef +
i've pounds OF salt pork and six
pounds OF bacon
Loads Him Down 4
Birmingham ratified Off the order
IS if he was ordering for a restaur-
INT and the man who had not had
.nythlng to eat for more than a day
ooked on
Now. let's get over to the wife
ma Riddle. said Birmingham While
he man was carrying the provisions "A
q the tent birmingham went to the
.osptlal to find out what was Che best
hing for mosquito bites, and then ne i
ma plenty of remedy sent over TO
octor litne Helen bites. For fear \
hat Mrs Schlutor might want some
bine that had not been included in 4
he grocery order, birmingham sent
substantial cash donation.
Schlnfer said he had been looking
ar iob ever since be lost his last
ne but that he had TO ind some.
ring for himself and family to eat
, the meantime.