ameng ether committees, to the Pelice Committee. There was an Indian bey

from Haskell whe get into some difficulty at the Varsity Theater when the _
pelice were called, and before the bey was taken te the station seme blows

were struck - not firearms, but fly arms. An article appeared in the daily

paper which caused great excitement and e lready the Pelice Committee has had three
meetings with the public, seme taking sides with the police and seme with the
Indian boye

Geerge Snyder, who was the campus patrolman fer a great number of years
and whe was perhaps the best leved officer on Mt. Oread, was one of the officers
arresting the Indian youthe Ralph Hubbell, the highly dependable and efficient
efficer on the police force, was the other. It is interesting just hew many
sides yeu can hear te a story. This morning Mayer Russell and Chief Bliesner
and I went out. fer a conference with Mr. Solen Ayers, the superintendent of
Haskell, Mre Morelock, the principal, and Mr. Madison Ceombs, the beys' ad-
viser and athletic director at Haskell. You remember Mr. Coombs was formerly
principal ef the University High Scheol - Old Oread, to you.

Se many weird statements have been made about this peisode that I felt
censtrained te tell of an incident that happened in our home some ten or
fifteen years age te shew the fallability of eye witneeses to an exciting
situatien.e Our statements are often celered and prejudiced. Never before
have these efficers been criticized for brutal treatment. But when the
Indian bey struck, ene of the efficers' night clubs came into play and some
damage was done te the defendant. But back te the story. At the time I
mentioned, squirrels were a drug on the market in Lawrence. Rabies were re-
perted among them, and although the squirrels are censidered pets of Lawrence,
they became a nuisance, at least they were a nuisance in my yard because we
had a shellbark hickory tree in the front yard near the sidewalk. It was aleng
in July and the hickory nuts had just begun te form and fill eut. The squirrels
descended upon that shellbark hickery in dreves, and in chewing the green
outer cevering off the nuts they made the worst mess imaginable. It did noe
geod to sweep the ddewalk, even every hour, because this debris rained dewn
on the pedestrians, and as the squirrels would chew seme of the nuts would
drop downe I won't try te describe what I heard frem the pedestrians.

So I made up my mind that I weuld eradicate, so faras possible, the
huisancee Realizing that a fellew whe would shoot a squirrel in broad day-
light before the sympathetic public, might receive severe treatment, 1 used
the upstairs bathroom window as a peint ef vantage te exterminate some of
the tree redentse I lewered the bathroom window and stuck the muzele of
the 410 shet gun out ef the northeast corner of the room, the muzzle being
pointed teward the squirrels. When I fired the squirrel came tumbling down
into the front yard and fitfully feught its way te the north parkway befere
expiringe I put the gun dew in the hallwey and walked outside in our frent .-
yard te recover the dead squirrel.

In the interim an automobilist passing down 8th street by the side of
eur house heard the shet and immediately clamped on his brakes, got out and
walded aroung and leoked at all four ef his tired for a blow-out. The motor-
ist did not see the squirrel lying dead on the parkwey. He hazily got back
in his car, wondering what in the world had happened. :

John Tom Reynolds lived in the house where Hevey Hanna now lives across
the street from me. He was lying in a hammock, tootling (should I say?) on
his saxophone. He was one of those fellews that believed in protecting the -
squirrels. He came charging across the s treet and said, “Did yeu see that
guy?" I said, "What?" as innocently as I could, although feeling a little guilty.
He said, "Did you see that guy get eut ef that car and shoot that squirrel?"

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