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L.A. FIREMAN
'ARRESTED'
IN MAYOR'S
JOKE

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Detectives Hail Man Before
Porter to Carry Out 
Election Promise
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Mayor Porter had his daily joke today at the expense of Fireman H. E. Schiefer of Engine Company No. 22.

  Schiefer, dressed in overalls, was polishing brass on one of the shiny engines in the firehouse when Detective Lieutenants G. E. Holt and Warren M. Stillson tapped him on the shoulder and informed him that he was in their custody.

FACES MAYOR

  They forced him to change to a blue uniform and then gave him a fast ride in a police car to the city hall, surreptitiously marching him into the mayor's office, where he was informed that Mayor Porter wished to see him.

  When he appeared before the mayor, Mr. Porter recalled to him a visit made to the fire house where Schiefer is assigned during the late mayoralty campaign.

  At that time Schiefer promised to vote for Porter and when the future mayor left the fire house, the fireman exclaimed:
  "Well, good-by mayor, I'll never see you again, for after you are elected, you won't talk to fellows like me!"

'JUST HORSEPLAY'

  Mr. Porter then informed Schiefer that if he did not come to the mayor's office after the election, he, as mayor, would send a police car for him.

  And that is what the mayor did today.

  Mayor Porter commended the fireman because "you were caught at work."

  The mayor said that the whole incident was "just a little bit of innocent horseplay."
 

July 22, 1929


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