The Washington herald., 1913-08-24

getting q firm grip on the horses reIns
and then kicking his wheel 50 thai n
would fall out OF the way OF injury fror,
the wagon. On one occasion he had a
fight with drunken and reckless driver
who was urging to top speech a sllritcd
horse. He first got hold OF the horse,
whereupon the driver lashed both him
and the beast, and the animal, already
mad with terror, could not be stopued
The officer had, Of course, kicked away
his wheel at the beginning, and after b.
ing dragged along for tome distance he
let go the beast and made a grab At the
wagon. The driver hit him with his
whip. but he managed to get In, ard
after q vigorous tussle overcame his
man, and disposed Of him by getting MIN
down and sitting on him. This left his
hands free for the reins. BY degrees ne
got the horse under CONTROL and drove
the wagon round to the station house
still sitting on mis- victim.
II jounced up and down on him TO keen
him quiet when he turned ugly" he re-.
marked to me parenthetically. HavinS
disposed Of the wagon, he took the man
round to the court, and on the way tn.
prisoner suddenly sprang on him and
tried to throttle him. Convinced at last
that patience had ceased to be a virtue.
ke quieted his assailan. with a smash on
the head that took all the fight out Of
him until he was brought before the
Judge and fined, Like the other bicycle
cops" this officer made a number OF ar
rests Of crimina :, such as thieves. high
waymen, and the like, in addition to mis-
natural prey-scorchers, rupaways, and
reckless drivers
The third member of the trio, q tall,
sinewy man. with flaming red hair, which
rather added 10 the terror he inspired in
eyil-doers, was usually stationed in a
rather tough part OF the city, where
there was tendency to crimes of yio-
lence, and incidentally an occasional de-
sire to harass wheelmen- The officer was
as good on his wheel as on il. and he
speedily established perfect order on his
beat. being always willing to take
chances" in getting his man. He was
no respecter Of persons, and when 1t be-
came his duty to arrest a wealthy man
for persistently refusing to have his car
riage lamps lighted after nightfaH, ne
brought him in with the same indiffer-
ence that he displayed in arrestipG a
street-corner tough who had thrown a
brick at wheelman.
The Police as FIremen.
Occasionally a policeman would Per
form work which ordinarily comes within
the domain of the fireman. In November.
1896, an officer who had previously saved
a man from death by drowning added
to his record by saving five persons from
burning He was at the time asleep
when he was aroused by a fire In q house
a few doors away. Running over the
roofs OF the adjoining houses until he
reached the burning building. he found
that on the fourth floor tne flames had
cut on all exit from an apartment in
which there were four women. two Of
them over fifty, and one of the others
with siX-months-old baby. The officer
ran down to the adjoining house, h.Oke
open the door of the apartment on the
same 1oor-the fOurth-and crept OIt ON
the coping. less than three inches wide,
that ran from one house to the other.
Being a large and very powerful and
active man, he managed to keep hold Of
the casing of the window with one hand,
and with the other 10 reach the windOw
Of the apartment where the women and
child were. The 1iremen appeared and
stretched a net underneath. The crowd
that was looking on suddenly became
motionless and silent. Then, ons by one
he drew the women out of their window
and. holding them tight against the wall,
passed them into the other window. The
eXertion in such an attitude was great
and he strained himself badly; but I've
possessed a practical mind, and as soon
as the women were saved he began a
prompt investigation of the cause of the
fire, and arrested two men whose care
lessness, as was afterward proved, caused
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