Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — Policeman’s Novel Excuse. [ARTICLE]

Policeman’s Novel Excuse.

Policemen on trial at headquarters are apt at excuses, says the New York Son. Former Inspector Williams used to tell of an officer who was charged With haring lost his whistle. When «aked to explain he said. “Yon 'see, I went home last night and pnt my whistle on the table. I turned round and, ‘bless me, one of my kids was choking and nearly black in the face. Yon see commissioner, he’d swallowed the whistler* ‘ls he dead?” asked the aympathetlc commissioner. “No, sir” wwythe reply. “He isn’t dead, but he’s got the whooping cough, and now every time he coughs the whistle fetows and.the cop on the post comes