The sun., 1919-01-31
COP TAKES MAN AND
Pig AND LOSES BOTH
Fondness for Pork and Cab.
bage Leads to an Arrest
and Dismissal,
PORKER's FATE IN DOUBT
Officer Duffy Returns to His
Beat, Makes q Purchase and
Begins Vigil.

The bouquet OF pork and cabbage Ian.
pens TO be the favorlte fruit and Howe,
OF Patrolman John Duffy OF tho ives.
Twentieth street police station. Officer
Duffy was fondly stroking the cran.yr
of n head OF cabbage in froit OF q
Maronis vegetable, stand In Tenth ay..
nue., near Eighteenth street, yes,erda
AFTERNOON when along came gentleman
carrying something half concealed he
meath his overcoat which Officer Dvr,
who has detective qualities OF no mean
order, Immediately suspected to be the
faunal soulmate OF tho cabbage Officer
Duffy was strokinE
As usual, Officer Duffy was correct In
his inductions and deductions. The man
who was crossing Tenth avenue and
headed west, had seventy-five pounds a;
toothsomeness beneath his coat-e vo,j,s
porker in the nude state known as
dressed pig-therefore much nearey
nakedness. inside and out, than the da,
II was born.
Now, II a fur coated gentleman .ea,e,
IN the tonneau OF Rolls-Royce Were
holding seventy-1ve pounds OF nor. ~.
in ono piece on his lap Patrolma, pnff,
In days like these, would have been tup
fled In holding up the car and asking
Guy where did you get IT." And her.
was man wearing merely one Of tha,,
present day $3.50 hand. me down suits arS
wartime ready made $500 overcoa'
with fortune in pig under his arm.
Comes to a Sudden Hail.
Officer Duffy put one foot across IN.
sidewalk, wherefore there was notr,,.
lett for the oncoming stranger 10 do hu,
stop, climb or walk around. He stopped
Ho was Andrew Stevens he saii 10
n Uo III
mad found the pig, he said, and vas
about TO deliver it Eat $50 West Eigh.
teenth street"
yes said Officer Duffy, land about
this time yesterday afternoon vss
walking up the east side OF Fifth ave
nue. IN the Thirties and l found the Tl'
fanny diamond on the pavement de
l!vered II at 2999 West First street.
guess III go along with you to this S.
West Eighteenth street haven't beer
that Tar out on the river this month"
AS they walked westward and ar
preached the banks Of tho North Rive
where 500 block would have been y
Manhattan had been wider. Officer Duff,
began to give happy Imitation o, a
policeman doing the Australian stroke
The stranger with the pig thought .
moment before stepping off the doci
and suddenly announced that IN. house
he had In mind must be 1855 Wes,
Eighteenth street"
You'll deliver that pig risht now n
the Jefferson Market Court" cat In the
cop. "Come-thls way east"
Pig Gets New Custodian.
The pig and Stevens were hrousn-
face to face with Magistrate william
Swcetzer His Honor quickly disposed
or the pig by establishing the corpus
deficit at 4 glance and then sought to
dispose Of stevens The Young man told
stories so confusing. however, that the
Magistrate. unable to decide what was
what. was compelled to dismiss the prl.-
oner. And Stevens had faded from IN.
courtroom before II dawned upon Mas
istrate Sweetzer that n PINK checked
young PIG, radiant from the effects o.
a recent stoCkyavd shave and hot tub
was permanently committing contempt
OF court by reclining on top OF the
N1a sistrate's bench.
There Is 10 refrigerator IN the ofn-r
of the custodian OF lost property ~ ,hs
jefferson Market Court Their $50
even market at the Jefferson Mara.
Court And x the pig stays IN ne los.
property department: during much moro
% the present mild winter weathe- there
is danger that por;: will steadily Sc
higher than ever. But Officer Duffy sec-'s
20 have hopes. At any rate Off1cer DIfry
as soon as he was off duty hurried bar'
70 q Maronrs and Dough: the bosonlnr
head of cabbage lie had been pett'nc
III late last night Oficer Dury. cahbaE-
under arm. haunted tie vicinity 81 to
pig, the officer gazing Ineanins|y 1t ''e
UP's custodian