Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-03-17
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Is Nipped From Officers Room
In Broad Daylight Saturday
Afternoon
.UNADULTERATED NERVE
Displayed By John Yodloski. Will
Need No Cyercoat For
Thirty Days

Nipping Chief of Police John Kee-
gan's overcoat while that official sat
in an adjacent room may appear as
quite joke on the officer, but not so
with one John Judlosl1i, a violin re-
pairer of Willow Lakes, who is scry-
ing a twenty days term in jail for
the offense. The coat was taken Sat-
urday afternoon while the Chief had
stepped into the municipal court;
judges Office for few minutes and
had left his Office door open for a
few minutes in order that he might
hear the telephone in case it should
ring.
Even the chief was at first inclined
to treat the matter as joke when he
stepped into the Office to procure his
overcoat, for the stiff zephyrs were
being waited across the country at
the time, and, having recently recoy-
cred from a long siege Of illness the
officer was loath to embrace the
breeze without the protection of an
outside coat. 49,.
But when the actual situation had
dawned upon the Chief, Oh, mamma,
it was a case in which, had he met
the gentleman garbed in his coat, pa.
tience would certainly have ceased to
| be virtue.
Officer Opheim appearing upon the
scene and being appraised Of the
| facts was soon OH a still hunt ansSssst
was not long before the keen insight
of this vigilant officer had his man
wearing the Chiefs coat in tow for~a
cell in the tombs.
4 When arrested Jodliski treated the
whole affair in nonchalant manner.
He had removed the billy which was
in the overcoat to his hip pocket and
all that was acking to bring out a
pseudo chief police of Watertown
was the star which usually adorns the
chiefs coat, but in this case happened
to be attached to another coat.
1 When brought before Judge Myers
the prisoner was at first inclined t:
treat the matter as joke, until the
| words "20 days" rang out clearly
from the court. He said that he had
y been drinking and that, as 1t was :
cold day, he only intended to veal
the coat for few hours and return
LIT. 81 no meant to stel your over
coat" said he to Chief Keegan, whs
made the complaint against him. i
4 is the first instance where anything
a has been taken from the office OF thu
chief of police.
Cool, unadulterated nerve is to bt
I: admired in case it is directed in ths
right channel. Jodloski certainly hat
his nerve with him on this occasion
for he not only opened the door ant
spoke to the chief while in the mt
ipal court room, but afterwards wen
into the Chiefs office and converset
with others, all the time wearing th'
officers coat
, There might have been some exten
) uating circumstances in connection
with Jodliski's case had he been con
!. tented to leave intact the attachment
s about the cell in which he was placed
, But when the officers called at hi
] temporary abode they discovered thu
u an effort had been made to breal
Z -tjail and that a strong bar had beel
: been broken and the lock dismantle'
Ito such an extent that it becam
! necessary to cut the latch.
j In all probability Mr.. Jodliski vii
shun anything that has the semblanc
], of an officers wearing apparel in tn
: future.