Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — Smallest Policeman Is Arrested by a Woman [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Smallest Policeman Is Arrested by a Woman

CLEVELAND, O. —With all the dignity of a London bobby or one of Kaiser Wilhelm’s schntzmentiF?ji2rTes William Long, who is six years old, and wlyj can walk under a dining room table without bumping his head, started to

arrest all the customers in a downtown department store the ether day. He was dressed like a “sure nuff” policeman, badge, club, pistol, brass buttons and all, and when he waved his cap pistol at a woman she ran. “Wait a minute,"— called Charles William. “Stand still an’ be ’rested. IJow’m I goin’ to ’rest you if you run?” and he tapped the shield on his swelling chest. The attention of Mrs. Sarah Dunleavev. store detective, was attracted

by the commotion and she picked Charles Williams up in her arms and carried him over to the old cmjlrt house. There she turned him over to Probation Officer Lewis. "Why did you let this woman arrest you if you are a policeman?” he was asked. "Huh, she jest picked me up an’ lugged me over here. I did think of ’restin’ her, but she’s too big, an’ besides I don’t ’rest women. I jest ’rest bad men." . ■ The little policeman said that he did not know where he lived, but could find the house “if you’ll only turn me loose.” The boy was taken to the detention home by Patrolman Harry Morgan of the juvenile court after he had escorted him into different streets and had asked him if he could tell where he lived. Pleading for his mother and tired from trying to keep step with the patrolman, the boy fell down pm the sidewalk at East Ninth street and Euclid avenue and wept. When a passer-by remarked that real policemen do not cry, the boy replied: "Well, I want to go home to mother, but nobody can find her for me." ■ Th~e'cTLHa”s^afentk“were T flnallyiocatedr- ——~ — — ,