Work Clippings 50/85
Evening World, New York, July 16, 1915, front page.
Work Scenes
„Why the Charley Chaplin effect?“
Editorial content. „Burglar Steals New
Magistrate‘s Pants
Esterbrook Woke Up and Saw Masked
Men Drive Out of Window.
City Magistrate O. Grant Esterbrook, appointed ten days ago, showed up in his court room this morning with an old pair
of trousers of the ,I-may-use-them-to-go-fishing-some-time‘ kind,
and a coat and vest that obviously had not been cut
to his figure.
,Why the Charley Chaplin effect?‘ some one inquired.
,Because the pants are all the burglar left me,‘
replied the Magistrate. ,The coat and vest are borrowed.‘
Then he explained that he was awakened at
3.30 o‘clock this morning in his room at the hotel in Blue Point,
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L.I., where he is spending the summer with
his family. He next saw a masked man leaning over
his trunk. The burglar threw a large bundle out
of the window and took a fifteen-foot drop to the lawn below.“ (...)
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