Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1914 — Modern Amazon Sits Upon Man Until Cops Come [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Modern Amazon Sits Upon Man Until Cops Come

PITTSBURGH, PA.—From under the weight of a modern Amazon to a police station cell whs great relief, - the other night, for Thomas Kearney, aged twenty-four, who gave his address of 4822'Hatfield street. Not until two

policemen arrived would Mrs. Josephine Smith, aged twenty-five, of Forty-eighth and Butler streets, give him the relief.' I “Oh, Lord!” gasped Kearney, himself no-mid-get, as the officer s assured hiß captor that it was safe'to let him up and she slowly arose from her sitting posture atop of Kearney’s chest. It was several minutes before Kearney could “get hiß breath," as he explained to the officers, in order to make the trip to the station house. Mrs. Smith was strolling along Hatfield street, I on her way home, at 10 o’clock, swinging a mesh ' bag in her hand. Kearney jumped from a doorway, she says, and grabbed at the purse.; I “Have a care!” warned Mrs. Smith, but Kearney heeded not the warning. He laughed aloud at the woman’s bravery and grabbed again, she aays, this

time wresting the bag from her hand. He started to run, but Mrs. Smith tackled him with the skill of an AU-Amerlcajn footballer and the two went to the sidewalk in a heap. Mrs. Smith quickly extricated herself and climbing on top of the chest Of the prostrate man sat thereon. The while shouting at the top of her voice, “Police! Police!” , The usual length of time that it requires the*police to answer an emer gency call was not of so much concern to Mrs. Smith as it was to Kearney, v