The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-17
SEPTEMBER MORN
FRIcHTENS COPS
How Gotham Police Failed to
Get Report on Obedience
to Fuel Order.
RAID TURKISH BATHS
Ladies' Day, 200 Strong, Puts
Bold Deputies to Rout
Murder! Help!

New York.--"Me afraid to go IMP
said the big fellow in the derby. Il
guess not. Wasn't we sent up to these
here Turkish baths by the marshal
himself and didn't he say, Find out
about the heat? That's what he done,
and I'm goin' in
Say, BILL" warned the small man
In the cap, wed better be cautious.
II amt no reflection on no mans cour-
ago to be cautious in q case Of this
kind. ! don't want to do nothin' we'd
regret. II we was on the trail Of Ger
man spies I'd stick with you. But this
10 different. We amt got no idea
what's in them baths. Take it from
me, we'd better go slow"
Into No Mans Land.
Whats eatin' you?" said Bill,
cooking his cigar stub at a grim angle.
"Come on In. Well go right past the
desk. We don't want no employees
butting in on our work Like as not
we'll git the goods on this place fer
violatin' the fuel orders and the boss
Of the dump'll have to pay a fine OF
five thousand iron men. Come on
SO the long and the short of the
argument was that the long and the
short deputies direct from United
States Marshal Thomas y. McCarthy's
office took n grip on themselves and
went over the top into No Mans land
With jaws set and a look Of grim
determination. they swept past the
desk. They stepped across the marbl,
floor to the far side OF the office where
long, heavy portieres hung over
doorway. They jerked aside the cur.
tains and bolted boldly inside. Tht
short one says it was only nine. But
they halted suddenly as IL they hat
run into machine gun fire.
Murder"
..Police!"
Help"
"Get out of here, you horrid, horrit
men!"
The babel Of terrified screams aros
from all sides--from the couches lin.
Ing the walls. from the crystal greer
water OF the swimming tank. and from
the tessellated pave surrounding it
There was a pink and white scurr,
for cover--but there wasn't any cover
Il told you So" said Shorty.
Come on" said Bill.
Retreated in Panic.
The. two deputies turned and bea
It. 1t was no strategic retirement. !
1s,i1I -, - toly,
flight. They ran out of the door. The
didn't stop until they had turned tn
nearest corner.
Can you beat it?" said Shorty.
II guess we did" replied Bin.
Who'd although we'd run into
whole flock of September Morns on ,
February afternoon when it's BLOWN
q blizzard"
IRA say there was at least 200 c
'em."
.'Pd say So"
"Did you notice that peach next I
the tall blonde?"
Notice nothin'. didn't have tim
You seem to have good eyesight."
In case of this kind ! ain
troubled with near sightcdness
didn't need no specs. It reminded me {
a paintin' in O'Brien's saloon Gale
Shy Anna Huntin' With Her Nymphs
guess they call her Shy Anna be
cause she's shy on clothes"
No More for Him.
But" added Shorty. they're SUI
violatin' the fuel order in there. A
them women couldn't be comfortab
without no clothes on if they WASH
using more coal than the law allow
Maybe we'd better go back and pine
the joint"
GO back?" shouted Bill. mot m
Well go straight to the office an
make a report. This September MOI
stuff amt nothin' in my young life.
there's anything more to be done /,
the marshal do it,
Report, Ell? We didn't take I
temperatures"
That don't make no difference. L
just tell 'um what we seen. 'At'l be
hot enough report"
1t was ladies' day in the big Turks
bath establishment. Who filed Il
complaints is not known. Marsh
Mccarthy says he is considering hi
Ing some women deputies.