The sun., 1919-02-08
NICK CARTER FADES
INTO FEARFUL BOY
Great Deteckatuff's Greatest
Career Blighted by
Jocular Cop.
TWO SUITS LADS DISGUISE
Maternal Twist of His Ear
Drags Sleuth From Trail
Of Crime.

Mice trip across or was the ocean too
|dusty?"--thus began Patrolman Johnny
Reese OF Traffic B. by way OF getting into
conversation yesterday morning with a
we'll dressed lad coming out of the West
Forty-second street ferry house. 1t
should be said in starting that PATROL
man Johnny Reese not only has a nat
ural gift for spontaneous witticisms OF
the high order Just quoted but has i'm
proved his natural talents by a wide
reading and study Of his twenty-five
volume set of printed screams entitled
THE Worlds Library of Wit and Humor
Up to and Including the Mid-victorian
Age"
The new arrival on the shores of Man
haitian hurried along in uncommunica-
tive silence. Patrolmsn Reese, who Is
highly observant as well as a noted wit.
seemed to recall having seen the same
lad many times recently in the West
Forty-second street waterfront neigh
borhood but never before had the boy
been decked out in the well fitting knick-
erbocker suit of blue he wore Yesterday.
Also the lad was carrying a suit case
which. In the eyes OF the law, makes
any one suspected OF being a suspicious
character suspiciously suspicious.
In Search of n Name.
IT didn't get your name" continued
Patrolman Reese, who in addition to be-
ing a Wit and observant Is also per-
sistent
My name is Nick Carter" the lad
answered defantiy. once Patrolman,
4 haI
Il just come from Washington on a
crime. I'm a deteckatuff"
''Deteckatuff Nick Carter Of Washing
ton nuthin'!" cried Patrolman Reese.
who besides being A wit and observant
and persistent is also a noted sceptic.
Why. l made you. Woody, the minute
you stepped onto America minute ago.
Where--'
MY name amt Wood or Woody" in
sisted the new arrival. My name Is
Nick Carter and I'm private detecka-
tuff fronl---''
Nav. you can't fool me, Mr.. Presi-
dent" interrupted Patroman Reese 81
made you as Woodrow Wilson OF Wash
ington as soon as I saw your suit case
You Just step over TO the West Side
court with me long enough to explain TO
Judge Joe CorriCan what the deuce YOU
mean, Mr. President. by leaving this
country fiat at a time when the Presi-
dent of this great country should be at
home attending To-"
And as Patrolman Johnny Reese and
Decteckatuf Nick Carter-who said he
was "goin on II years old" but later
proved to be aged 13--strolled eastward
Patrolman Reese delivered long lee
ture on the evils of leaving the nation
in lurch. The lecture began facetiously
but rapidly took on a fervent note, for
Patrolman Reese. besides being a wit,
observant. persistent and sceptlc, also
ID Republican
Tolls of Law Tighten.
Pending a study by members Of the
Missing Persons Bureau young Detecka-
tuff Nick Carter was held temporarily
on a charge of vagrancy. Deteckatuff
Nick Carter insisted II he were detained
longer Il lot Of international crooks lie
was pursuing from Washington via tie
Weehawken ferryhouse would vanish.
Tho studies OF the Bureau OF Missing
Persons brought to light the fact that
"Deteckatuf Nick Carter also, was
Charley keim. who had disappeared
January 20 from the home of his
mother, Mrs. Mary KeIm. at 500 East
Seventy-second street
An inventory of the contents OF the
suit case further revealed almost a COM
plete hayloft paper covered library OF
original 'steen thousandth editions OF
Nick Carter IN the Far West" Mick
Carter and the Great Diamond Rob
| berry THE Bloody Holdup OF the Cam
non Ball Limited" Mick in Chicago"
Mick and the MontmorenCy Murder"
Breaking Bounds at Sing Sing" and In
Vulnerable other best juvenile sellers
Also the contents included an old suit Of
| clothes.
II gotta get outta here" Charley. alias
| Nick, was saying 10 Patrolman Reese
| later in the day. IT tell yum I'm Nl2k
! Carter, the detccka---- Lemme go.
Who's holdin' my ear? Lego my ear,
will yuh :"
slcuth Half Disappears.
It was the thumb and forehnger 81
Mrs. Mary Kem's right hand holding
the great deteCkatuff'3 car. Mrs. Klein
having heen summoned from the East