The Washington herald., 1918-04-17
Oh. weII-BIame II en- Baby.


A baby. barely two years old. was
the innocent cause of all the trouble.
The other night this youngster.
the son of Thomas and Eliza Mer-
tens, was put to bed at 7 o'clock.
Just as soon as his mothers back
was turned. he climbed out Of bed
and made straight for . long black
object that he saw lying on q chair
while his mother undressed him.
He tossed 1T around for q while
and finally lost 1t.
The next morning Tom got UP,
dressed and looked on the chair for
his wallet. 1t was gone.
Suddenly he remembered that
Eliza had asked him for money the
night before and he refused.
And SO he reasoned that II must
have been her that swiped it.
He got after her about IL. She
denied knowing anything about it.
There was a fight. Eliza got hurt
She was cut over the eye.
Tom was arrested.
Someone. we don't know who 1t
was, found the walle. and then of
course Tom knew he had made a
mistake.
And persuaded Eliza to forgive
him. She did and refused to prose-
cute and he was turned loose.
Taking His Time.
Occasionally we see a sign that
says. Watch your step"
They are going to hang another
one out to read. watch your
watch"
So many watches have been
swiped lately that detective head
quarters looks like a jewelry store.
The last one to be swiped be-
longed to John Boyer. who works
in a car barn.
John steps out of his street
clothes in the morning into his
overalls and leaves his watch off
for the day.
Bill Finney. another car barn
employe. spied the watch the other
day in an empty car.
For a long time Bill had been
wishing for a watch-one of those
cute little ones that strap around
the wrist.
Although Johns watch wasn't
that kind. it would do in a pinch.
thought Bill, and he swiped it. :,
1t wasn't long before he traded
1t off for a t-watch-which. by
the way. wouldn't run.
So he did some more watch trad
ing. He kept on trading watches
for a month.
The cops got onto him. He
owned UP to swiping the one be-
longing to John.
Patrol wagon-cell-cour - con-
fession again-and $50 fine. All
this for Bill.
watch Your Step, Girls!
Calling a married woman a Stacker
is not very polite. but
Whatare you going to do when
a cop arrests a married woman
with a husband supporting her and
charges her with being a vagrant.
How can it be? There isn't any
law on the books that recognizes
such a case.
Anyhow Policeman Wilson arrest
ed Helan Brant. She has both a
husband and an income.
But-said the cop-she runs the
SsASCtS anu spNohS " OIL oh6Cis.
You can't expect Helen to stay
in the house all day when her hub
by. who is a night watchman. is
asleep.
Shooing flies. Off a sleeping man
is not an easy job, so 1t seems.
The people from whom Helen and
her hubby rent a room say that she
Is not as bad, as far as they know,
q the he
If Helen wasn't behaving herself
they knew nothing about it-she
always acted like a lady indoors,
they said.
However the cop had a little
something to back up what he said.
1t is apparent however that he
arrested Helen on the wrong
charge.
If every married woman who
don't work and goes outdoors is to
be arrested-well we won't say any
more about that.
The Judge looked at the law book
again and saw what it said about
vagrants-and 1t didn't At Helen at
all.
So he reprimanded her for being
naughty and let her go.
Peppery Pete.
Last Sunday morning Pete Mar
vim borrowed q motorcycle.
Pete knows very little about ma
chinery-and still less about women.
he had loads Of trouble with this
contraption. Along about noon ,he
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