Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-03-24

a part in the greater drama of the
metropolis. The party of the second
part was the Honorable William Lin
der.
Mr., Under sat at five p. m, of an
early summer day. behind lock and
bolt The third floor front room of
his ornate mansion on Brooklyn's park
slope was dedicated to peaceful
thought. Sprawled in huge and soft
ly upholstered chair at the window,
he took his easS in his house. The
chair had been a recent gift from an
anonymous admirer whose political
necessities, the Honorable Mr. Under
idly surmised, had not yet driven him
TO reveal his identity. It's occupant
stretched his shoeless feet, as was his
custom, upon the broad window-sill,
flooded by the seasonable warmth of
sunshine, the while he considered the
ripening mayoralty situation. He
found it highly satisfactory. IN the
language of his inner man. it was
cineh.
Below, in Kennard street, solitary
musician plodded. His pretzel-shaped
brass rested against his shoulder. His
upward glance encountered the promi-
nent feet in the third-story window of
the Under mansion, and rested. Oppo-
site the window he paused. He raised
the mouthpiece to his lips and en-
barked on q periIous sea of notes
from which the tutored ear might have
inferred that once popular ditty,
Egypt
Love of music was not one of the
Honorable William Linder's attributes.
An irascible temper was. The master
of the mansion leaped from his rest
full chair Where his feet had orna-
mented the coping his face now ap-
peared Far out he leaned, and roared
at the musician below:
Go away! Move on"
The musician smiled reassuringly.
Il got already paid for this" he ex-
planned.
Up went the brass to his lips again.
The tonal stairway which leads up to
the chorus of Egypt" rose in rasping
wailfulness. Ii eliminated in an ex-
cessiye, uncomfortable, brazen Shrek
and the Honorable William Under ex-
perienced upon the undefended rear
of his person the most violent kick OF
a lifetime not always devoted to the
arts OF peace 1t projected him clear
of the window sill An awning inter-
cepted the politicians fight He passed
through this, penetrated a second and
lay placid on his own front steps with
three ribs caved in ard yariegated
fracture OF the collar bone. BY the
time the descent was ended the Ger
man musician had tucked his brass I'M
der his arm and was hurrying in panic
down the street, his ears stin ringing
with the concussion which had blown
the angry householder from his own
trent window. He was intercepted by
a running policeman.
Come along back. You fer a wit.
ness! Come on; you an yer horn"
/ 1T ISIS not a horn" explained the
German patiently, it iss B-fat from
bone"
Along with several million other
I readers, Average Jones followed the
Under bomb outrage" through the
+ scandalized headlines OF the local
press. The perpetrator. declared the
I excited journals, had been skinful. No
+ clue was left. The explosion had
/ taken care Of that The police hung
/ tenaciously to the theory that the mu-
stefan was involved chiefly because
they had nothing else to hang to. The
explosion had been very localized. the
room not generally wrecked: but the
chair which seemed to be the center
OF disturbance. and from which the
| Honorable William Under had risen
Just II time to save his life. was blown
TO pieces. and a portion Of the floor
beneath 1t was shattered. The force
OF the explosion had been from above
the floor downward; not up through
I the flooring. AS to murderously in
clined foes Mr. Under disclaimed
knowledge OF any. The notion that
the trombonlst had given a signal he
derided as an Old Sleuth pipe-dream. .
Average Jones. who was much occu-
pied with q pair of blackmailers op-
Grating through faxed photographs.
about that time. had almost forgotten
the Under case when. enc day. q
month after the explosion. Waldemar
dropped in at the Astor court Offices,
He found changed Jones; much thin