Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — STORIES from the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES from the BIG CITIES

Chicago Judge’s Dead Pig Is His Bailiff’s Jinx

CHICAGO. —Judge Adelor J. Petit} of the circuit court directed his deputy bailiff, John Hickey, to take a dressed pig to the judge’s home in Rogers Part- Hickey started to wrap up. the pig. "Don’t you know it’s against the

law to take a pig on the ’L’?” said one of Hickey’s associates. "A friend of mine was arrested last winter by health officers because it is against the law to take dead animals among passengers in puUic conveyances.” "if they don't see the pig they won’t know it,” said Hickey. Before he could leave the county building other deputies told newsboys Hickey was going to carry out the body of a dead baby that had been used as an exhibit in a murder trial.

Several hundred “murder fans’’ were gathered in front of the building when Hickey emerged with the package under his arm. "Letts see the kid,” said a dirty-faced urchin, tugging at the bailiff's arm. “It’s no kid, I’ye got. ’Tlb a pig, it is,” said Hickey, elbowing his way through the crowd. Hickey boarded a train for Rogers Part. A fellow deputy called up the Rogers Park police station. "This is Simpson, the commission merchant,” he said. “I just fired one of my employes and when he left he stole a dressed pig weighing 49 pounds. He Just got on an elevated train and we think he will get off at Birchwood avenue. Arrest him for us." Heavy hands fell on Hickey’s shoulders as he stepped to the platform at Birchwood avenue. Two detectives grabbed him. Hickey denied that he was a pig thief. / 7 1 “What’s this ?** said one of the detectives, tearing the paper around the pwkage under Hickey’s amt "Ah! ha! ’tis a pig. You will lie to us, will you? C’m’long." "I got a court order to deliver this pig to Judge Petit’s house,” said Hickey, “and I don’t care whether you are detectives or not. lam going to do it.” Explanations followed at the judge’s residence and Hickey was released.