Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-02-07

night that made Doug Fairbanks,
Bill Hart and the rest of the rough
house stars look like pikers. Pa
trolman Pearl in his little playful
way dragged a girl by the hair of
the head down two flight of stairs
and out into the public square. In
cidentally the girl was name Pearl
Smith and at the start of her name.
sake's little frolic was clad only in
nightgown. Sad to relate, at the
end of the reel the nightgown was
pretty near a memory. To add to
the thrilling part of the "Keyston-
er's Mad Rambles" our heroic DO
liceman fired his pistol off five
times, some saying he was trying to
shoot out the electric light. The
end of reel two shows Officer Pearl,
assisted by q squad of his fellow
Keystoners, taking his captive to
Jail.
Episode three Is laid in the office
OF the Chief of Police, and Night
Chief Laird is featured with Officer
Pearl and the prisoner. the back
ground showing the squad of Key
stoners who assisted the soused COP
In dragging the girl to Jail. Night
Chief Laird was recently in the pub
lie view by playing the headline part
in the Shawnee Park murder case.
After spending a pile of the taxpay-
ers' funds with a costly court trial,
etc.. Laird CAME NEAR convicting
deaf mute of the murder. In this
scene with Pearl he takes the
sOused kcystoner's revolver away
but does not discover that it had
daily excuse since of Chief Petty
that he didn't know all about the
trouble because Laird or no one else
told him that five shots had been
fired. The closing scene shows our
hero Laird constituting himself as a
Judge. jury and everything else by
rubbing the names of the arrested
parties off the station house slate,
which reminds us why pay taxes
10 keep up the Police Court when
Laird can fill the bill like that. We
forgot to add that Patrolman Pearl.
who did his bit towards keeping up
the reputation, mysteriously disap-
peared at the end of this scene and
takes an aeroplane flight to De-
troit.
Col. Petty, Chief of the Keyston-
ers, was not at all pleased with the
Pearl performance, especially the
part played by someone swearing
out warrant for the wild and
woody Keystoner in Squire O'Brien's
court. Perhaps Col. Petty will ex-
plain why this was petty politics, as
he terms it. One would hardly ex-
pect justice from an office where
names are rubbed off the slate and
the news kept from the newspapers,
the story only leaking out when the
warrant was sworn out in the Magis-
trate's court. Chief Petty's office
did not give out the story of Officer
Pearl. nor has the Chief explained
why Pearl was on his vacation. Nor
does he explain why Pearl took his
vacation at this time, which is not
a vacation time in the police de-
partment. Then again Chief Petty
might tell the public il Pearl was
taking his vacation because Of his
To,th We, sanibIil the
, all can renf Republican CI,,
on BIZ can pre re ember when CcIIb.
anS o,ber ngame, Lewis ooi; Pei;
dnoas; anu osne used to eo "s JohnSt
aressir ,s. ~, he Rotary CInh harounS-eu !,
oid riS' cat ~ the Kiwani IN fI .:buI," - tbei ~i
hearers i}An ggJsaEiTieving sEiTieing that the mo-
ley aggregation of ex-motormen an
|, conductors were real policemen, an
1t is not far back to the time whe
you were fined in the Police CouI
for calling them "Keystoners." Rot
berries, murders, crime wholesal
and no arrests have exposed Louis
Vile to the country because of tn
joke police. and the gambling an
other cases like PEARLS put quietu
on the lecture tours of Petty, John
son and Burlingame. Enough
sometimes too much