Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — Man Plays Horse in Street and Lands in Cell [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Man Plays Horse in Street and Lands in Cell

CHICAGO. —“Giddap!— whoa! —gee! —haw!” yelled John F. Quin, thirtyeight years old, 921 Wells street, as he galloped and pranced up and dowh Hill street early the other morning with a harness over,his shoulders. Crowds

gathered, wondering what sort of vehicle Quin thought he was drawing. He did not seem to mind spectators in the least, however. He trotted, ran and shied. “Come on, you Silverheels! Come on, you Silverheels!” called a couple of spectators. In a moment bets flew. One man staked 100 to 1 that Quin would beat his shadow by a nose, another laid a 1040-1 shot that he could beat bis coat-tatfs. The man who wagered that

he sooa would beat a retreat won all the money. Because Just then police of the Chicago avenue station arrived and for a moment did not know what to make of it. Finally deciding that the man should be arrested, ther took him to the station, and ne was charged with appearing in public disguised as a horse. "I guess be bad been playing with the kid,” volunteered somebody, "sad thinks the small boy is still driving him." >