Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — FLIGHT OF STAIRS STOLEN [ARTICLE]

FLIGHT OF STAIRS STOLEN

New Worker Has Difficult Task in Making Police Understand His Excited Complaint by Phone. New York. —Here, then, is the man who is probably a second cousin of the man you've heard about who would steal a red-hot stove. For this man stole a—well, to put things in regular order, the whole affair started when an excited individual took off the receiver of his telephone In the apartment house at 1944 Madison avenue, and more or less excitedly asked central to connect him with the police department, the fire department, the building department or Mayor Gaynor. He didn't seem to care very much which one he was connected with, either, but be wanted it quickly. At any rate, he got one of the, four on the wire, and this is what he said: “I live on the sixth floor of this building. 1944 Madison avenue, and something has gone wrong with