Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1916 — Policeman in Brooklyn Runs Down Strong Clue [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Policeman in Brooklyn Runs Down Strong Clue

BROOKLYN.— Persons chancing to drop in at the Amity street police station the other day were almost overpowered by the identical clue that led to the arrest of Raymond Barone of Brooklyn on a charge of burglary,

although no one recpgnized it as a clue. They called it something else. The station fairly reeked with the odor of Roman cheese, to which the smell of limburger is as attar of roses or the breath of clover-fed kine. The odor escaped into the open air, and strong men, passing on the sidewalk, staggered. The odor first assailed the nostrils of Policeman Russell of the Amity street station —“Cheesey” Russell his fellow bluecoats call him, be-

cause of his having thrice arrested cheese thiefs in the last three months—as he passed Petriliano & Grillo’s Italian cheese store, at 154 Columbia street. The three arrests that gave him his sobriquet all were made there and Russell sniffed suspiciously. There was no possibility of mistaking the smell for anything else on earth save Roman cheese. Because of the frequency of burglaries in the cheese store, which have necessitated his going Inside in the dark, Policeman Russell had provided himseirwith a helmet such as is worn by the French soldiers when attacked bv asphyxiating gas. Now he donned the mask and commenced invest!gut in g. ' : ■ ■ _ —- A low moan from a big bread box outside the store caused him to lift the cover. There, curled up inside, together with 12 cakes of Roman cheese, he found Barone almost overcome. He was limp when he arrived at the Amity street station. Lieutenant Sionistadt, an authority on cheese, debated whether to use a pulmotor, but Barone revived and called hoarsely for water. The reserves were sent for the 12 Roman cheeses and all were given stimulants to revive them upon their arrival.