The Washington herald., 1915-11-14
CASEY, THE COP.
He Tells of Scrap with Commissioner.

! out of uniform and had Just come out
screamed out that a man had snstehed
her purse; She pointed him out and
He was a pretty good Splinter but /
was better. and after a run Of i've
or six blocks, i was close behind him.
And you fell down and lost him %
asked, as Casey paused for breath.
| Don't get ahead of my story" he
here first That AFTERNOON, one Of his
ltpughs had told him that Burglar Ned
would be at certain saloon al a
hour sva shs5 egen fSs Tas
and instead Of detailing three or four
detectiVes to go with him to the
saI0oai he ,h. planned to go alone and and
glory. The hour had arrived and he
was on his way to the place, when as
he was about to turn turn mel my
other direction and there was a head
on collision, which sent US all in a
heap to the sidewalk. The Commits
time and while the thief ran. away;
commanded to Come along quietly. 1
ion of the thief and was helping him
70 get away. True as you live, the
Commissioner. though he had had but
ognized me as Burglar Ned.
''As I struggled with him he gave
me a clip on the ear. In return, l
gave him a fist on the left eye: He
raised a bump almost as big as a
hens egg. Then 1 reached his other
eye and as he knocked out two of
plexus which sent him into dream
land for the next five minutes. We
had to get glass of whisky from
saloon and work over him quite a
time before he came back to earth
by this time three or four patrol
crowd of a hundred outsiders. Not
one of the patrolmen knew me by
sight, and when the Commissioner had
revived sufficiently to point me out
station. There is where we all went.
1t was when the captain recognized
the Commissioner that came near
fainting away in my tracks"
You had got yourself into a pretty
scrape," 1 said.
IT didn't I,, need no lawyer to ,. see ss
be toma6awked on the spot. and !
had hardly breath enough to try and
explain matters L9rd. man. would thd
c coPhsiOns 1 With the coat SaiftoT1
of his back-half- over from the
solar plexus punch. and with the
prettiest black eyes / ever saw saw on "a, a
so fast that he could only squint
threw them. One Of his own patrol
man was responsible for this wreck
tn tos be shp GATED dS 0 on st tRe shoIidsrg s
But what did happen"
Just this. sir: After about ten
Commissioner Com told me to report at head
quarters at 10 o'clock the next morn
ing and ! left the station. a wretched
and forl0rn man; ] knew ;pey that I , Mould
would. have to eat snowballs during
the coming winter. / walked the floor
all the rest Of the night and you can can
hour named for I wanted the thing
over with"
Did the Commissioner have his gun
Not quite so bad as that He
had a beefstew bound over either
eye, and had just come down from
tend to my case. / gave him my ex-
PLANTATION again and when was
through. told him how sorry I
tnst such Se ASKED teng m eao hove mshy
Two were left on the. sidewalk.
sir. and two more are SO loose that
"FBut we've got to even this up,
Casey. I shall suspend you from duty
for the next sixty days
me OF SO easy. but 1 thought 1t wiser
to Keep quiet / muttered something
in reply and was going out when he
called me back and asked:
casey. did you ever have pair
II have had, your Honor
LAS bad as mine?
~ think so, sir;
How long did 1t take you to cure
Them
the black and blue disappeared
ooh, then, I'll make YOUR suspen-
sion for ninety days That will be
about the time II VIII take Tor you
And is that aIle" l asked Of Casey
as the shower ceased and we stepped
out on the street
Not quite" he replied. After fr;
teen days he restored me TO duty and
quit detective work forever. When
the papers tried to find out the par
the Commissioner had got out of bed
at night to answer a telephone call
and had run against two open doors
at the same time.