Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1913 — Whispered Tip to Cop Wakes Up City Employes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Whispered Tip to Cop Wakes Up City Employes

PTTSBURGH, PA.—-These are strenuous days for the Coppers-Afrald-of-Thetr-Jobs. What with the wily thieves active and the public claiming the city Is overrun with robbers, pickpockets and other plundering rascals, and Director John H. Dailey after these same coppers until they dream of “shakeups’* and dismissals, the life of a bluecoat or a plain-clothes man la not pleasant. The other afternoon Lieutenant of Police Charles Faulkner and a couple "subs’’ were polishing their buttons in Magistrate Fred Goettman, Jr.’s, courtroom at the North Side pollice station, while the magistrate told ■funny stories and drew cartoons on a pad (the court not being then In session), a wild-eyed ’’taxpayer” rushed in and whispered to the sergeant In charge that "two auspicious negroes ■were skulking In an alley off Arch street, near the High School building.” The tip was given to Lieutenant iFaulkner. Instantly he and the “subs” Igot busy in making a marathon dash yar the scene of action. They found

the suspects sure enough. Both, how> ever, were reclining on the sidewalk comfortably resting against a brick house, fast asleep tn the broiling sun When yanked to their feet by tns zealous limbs of the law, the darkeys rubbed their eyes and gased in wonderment at the blue coats.

“Whahfah you arrest us, boss?" they asked of Faulkner. “We aln’ bln doin’ nothin* but waitin’ yeah fer de gawbage wagon t* come ’long. We all’s city ’ployes, we is'. We jess—" _***Bout face!” shouted Lieutenant Faulkner to the “subs.” "Forward, march—straight back to the cooler joint We’Ve been fooled again.”