Arizona republican., 1917-08-06
VIOLIN FOUND
 WHEN VILLAIN
 REALLY WANTED

It was nearly o'clock yesterday morning. The hush of the dead hour of the night was over all. The city of Phoenix slept. The telephones in the police station jingled only occas- ionally as some patro.man on re- mote beat "called in" For all the ac- tivities of the element with which the police might have to deal, the police station could have been locked up and the officers sent home.
 Then this peaceful situation went all to smash with a bang. The telephone rang. An excited voice told the officer a the desk that the police were wanted in hurry. Burglars. yes bold, bad burglars. Come down Third street to Grant," the voice instructed, and thirty seconds later four officers in a speeding Chrevolet were craning their necks and straining their eyes in the four cardinal directions as they were being hurried to the southeast part of town.
 Arrived at Third and Grant street, no evidence of life was manifest A cat hurried across the road and into the brush. dog hoWled and a baby was crying away in the distance.
 Tt must have been at Third avenue and Grant stTtet," jiuggated Night Captain Carr.
 No such thing" said Policeman Watson, who had received the call direct from the desk man.
 Well we're not doing any good here" said Policeman Culp who sug- gested that it might have been First street and Grant
 The run of two blocks was made in quick time and there an effort was made to find something to warrant the .un. Policeman Gaskin spied a ight Tn q house and pointed it out to Culp who asked a woman living there if a call for an officer had been sent in from her house. There hadn't.
 A few minutes later the automobile carried the mystified policemen across the intersection of Third avenue and Grant street And everything was quiet there. On the officers went until the Grant school was reached.
 And man was seen making his way across lots over the school playground. But investigation showed that he was young man, of good habits, living in the neighborhood, who was making his way home after sitting up with a sick friend He was allowed to go Just as the officers were about to en-
 
 spied upon the grass. Closer investi- gation revealed a violin lying across the wheel. There was nothing to in dicate ownership. The young man who had just been interviewed was again hailed and asked concerning the wheel and the fiddle. It vas all Greek to him. And so the bicycle and the mu- sical instrument were taken in cus- tody." Yesterday both were held at the police station awaiting an explana- tion of the mystery.
 And when the police returned to the Central station it was learned that the negro watchman at the cotton mill at Seventh and Grant streets had seen some men making a short cut through a patch of cotton belonging to the com pany and had become frightened He had called the police and in calling them had been trying to explain that the quickest way to reach the plant was to proceed by Third street to Grant street and thence out Grant street to Seventh. The services of the officers weren't required then. In fact they weren't needed in the first place.
 A perfectly good bicycle and a per fectly good violin and bow are at the 1 police station awaiting the coming of an owner or owners.