The New York herald., 1922-04-17
silk STOCKING Love
DROVE Jimmy TO IT
He Had Been a Good Lad
Until His Girl Yearned
to BE a Flapper.
GEORGE HAD THE IDEA
'All We Got to Do Is Rob
Some Place. Said jim
my's Pal.
SO THEY WENT AND DID
If George Had Avoided Ba-
nanas They Might Have
Got Away With 1t.
SO THEY WENT AND DID


Jimmy Garrity's girl told him the
other day that If he was any sort or
a sweetheart at all he would get ner
some silk stockings and snappy
cloth hat, inasmuch as she was am
bilious to become fiapper and her
folks said she was too young. She
made it very plain, in fact, that II
Jimmy did not get them there were
others who would, and she mentioned
casually that young Tony Esposito,
proprietor of a fIourishing though
perambulating bootblack business.
was stuck on her to the limit.
She pestered him SO much about IT
that Jimmy, who is 13 years old,
extraordinarily skinny and lives in 4o3
West Fifty-sixth street, went into
conference on the matter with his
friend George Galindo, who is fourteen
and lives across the street at 400.
Ordinarily George, who is very fat, is
phlegmatic and not inclined to serious
and rapid thought. but this matter
fitted in perfectly with certain small
ambitions of his own.
Its a cinch," said George. "all VIC
got to do is rob some place"
Georges Moral support.
But what place? That was not de-
cidcd until yesterday afternoon. when
I-,,tf Tod
Childrcn's Wear stores, at $50 and SCI
Ninth avenue. Both these stoms are
run by Joseph Kaufman, but they are
divided by hallway. in the rear of
which are doors leading into both places.
The windows were filed with snappy
cloth hats and sheer silk stockings, and
both boys knew It was the place they
had been looking for
So last night about 8 o'clock Jimmy
and George, the latter still nunching on
a. piece OF pie which he had bought and
with three bananas sticking from his
pockets, went into the hallway and with
hammer smashed the bottom panel
OF the door to the store at $50 Ninth
avenue. Once inside they went to tho
counter. and Jimmy began dragging
down hats and stockings and garters
and all sorts OF clothing. and piling them
In a pile. At his command George
stuck three pairs OF silk stockings In
his pockets, but further than that lie
did not go. The robbery was after all
not his affair: he was only there TO
lend moral aid and support. So while
Jimmy pulled down the loot he sat on
the floor and devoted himself to the re-
maioder of the pic and the three ba-
! nanas.
Half an hour after the boys got into
Il a n 1f. nt acr
store and threw the switch that turned
on the lights in $50. Then he went into
the street. just in time TO look in and
see Jimmy and George scurryIng toward
the rear. They looked like giants Il
him. so he tclephoned the West Forty.
seventh street station and Detectives
/ Brady and Maskiell piled into a depart
mental flivver and went roaring through
the streets to capture the robbers.
| George I'm a Hole.
Jimmy and George reached the hole
in the door. abandoning their loot, cx.
cept the stockings in Georges pocket
and Jimmy. being skinny, went through
the hole like an eel. Then George
started. But George had eaten three
bananas and a piece of pie during thc
marauding operations and he had
swclIed. the swelling being Increased
moreover. by the silk stockings intended
for the spindling legs of Jimmy's girl
So George could not mako IL. He go,
half way and then stuck. and since he
had put his arms fiat alongside his body
to hurry his progress he could do moth.
ing to help himself.
| SO there George was, half IN and halt
out. when the detectives and their at
tending crowd arrived. The detectives
went into the hallway because they
heard sruntngs and wheezings and
sharp exclamatIons OF "Ouchl Cut 1,
outl That hurts my insides!" and a
voice replying. what you eat them
bananas for?'
The detectives drew their guns and
turned on their flashlights, and saw
Jimmy Garrity. with feet braced. bend
ing over backward in the attempt to pull
George through the Mole In the floor.
But George was firmly stuck. Jimmy de-
sisted when tho csps came. and surren-
dcred. and George began believing. be-
cause he was exactly half in and halt
out and nc worked like a seosaw. lie
was balanced at tho middle and Inc
bobbcd up and down. first his head
humping the hallway and then his fec;
scrlp!ng the floor Of the store.
The detectives gave a few tentative
pulls AT George. but saw that they never
would be able 10 get him out that way
except in pieces. SO Detective Maskiell
held him in horizontal position while
Brady went inside and sawed through
the door enough TO release the boy.
Then both marched out of the store, IA
tho great astonishment OF the crowd
which had heard tho savings and
thumpings and had reached the conclu-
sion that either robbers or police were
getting beating. They had hoped 10
see ambulance eases; what they saw was
two little boys, one grunting with the
stomach ache.
Both Jimmy and George were locked
up. charged with juvenile delinquency.
Jimmy had time 70 get away before the
police came. hut lie and George had
been friends for long time and he
would not desert his pal.