Arizona republican., 1913-09-21
STRAY TOPICS FROM
 LITTLE OLD NEW YORK

apparent seriousness of moral purpose which disguises the real object of the filthy play What then? Well, there have been a number of such cases lately and what happened in those cases clearly points to the necessity of strict censorship for all theatrical productions in this city. Quite recently two So-calIed white slave plays were turned loose upon an eagerly receptive public in this city and after the usual sequence of events as indicated 'bove it was decided to give special perform ances of the plays for the benefit of the special jurieS who are to decide upon the character of the plays. What ever the decision of the jury may be-
 the plays will obtain a great deal of
 advertising-jus what the playwright
 the managers and the actors want
 One of the police magistrates of New
 York had a great scare the other day and by the same token an Italian workman employed at some building work near the police court was de- prived of his monday lunch. The con- nectlon between the two facts may not
 be apparent, yet they were intimately connected. When Magistrate Thomas Nolan left the Sussex Market court the other day to get his luncheon, he saw upon the steps of the building a medi- m-sIzed package, tied with a piece of wire. The parcel looked mysterious.
 in fact, downright sinister and as bomb outrageS are not of uncommon occurrence in that district, Magistrate Nolan returned to his chamber and re- quested a policeman to investigate the matter. The policeman carefully in spected the parcel from a safe distance for few moments and then fetched a bucket Of water which he emptied over the dangerous looking parcel Magis- trate Nolan and number of other per sons, who firmly believed that a bomb outrage had just been nipped in the bud, watched the proceedings from afar. Having thoroughly soaked the package. the policeman gingerly opened 1t and drew from it's wet Wrappings a few pieces of bred, few slices of cheese, with a handf.Il of green peppers and a few tomatoes. Everybody sighed a sigh of relief and Magistrate Nolan lightheartedly made his way to the nearest restaurant Half an hour later an Italian workman came to the Fifth Street police station and excitedlv complained that some policeman had stolen his lunch
 The fool killer is evidently neglect ing his business in this city as if he were Tammany politician on the pub- Hc payroll. Every now and then some fool lndulges in practical joking. in Variably with the same result; some in nocent person is hurt or killed but the idiotic joker" never. A few days ago a half drunken man and a few of his friends who Were far from sober de- clded to play a joke upon two men coming down lonely street in Will
 lamsburg, by pretending to be high Waymen They planted themselves in the road, stopped the vehicle and com manded the two men in the buggy to hold up their hands. One of the two men, believing that he had fallen into the hands of real brigands, drew a re- VoIVer from his pocket and fired a shot Which missed the supposed high Wayman but hit and fatally injured an innocent pedestrian about half a block away. The 'jokers" and the supposed victims of the holdup fled when the man fell He was taken to the Will liamsburg Hospital and there died an hour later
 The burglar who visited the apart NAAN VI oISlSiIlu0d NTenlS on Simpson Street, in the Bronx, the other night. owes 1t to his daring and nerve that he is still among the living. For a brief moment he was facing the double dan ger of being shot and of falling from a height of sixty feet down a light shaft The other night MT. Genis was awak- ened by a noise in his apartment. Grasplng his revolver and cooking if ready for use, Mir. Genis ran into the room adjoining his bedroom and reached it just in time to see man. evidently burglar, making a flying leap from the window sill to the fire escape on the other side of the lighting court, a distance Of about seven feet The burglar missed the railing with his foot, but caught the latter with his hands. MT. Genis could have shot him. but his admiration of the mans pluck and nerve stayed his trigger-finger The burglar climbed to the roof and escaped