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Waupaca Republican

June 29, 1906

CHINEE MADEE AT BOYS

Tuesday evening as Mrs. N. Cohen was setting on the walk near the fruit store and talking with Mrs. Klein a hammer came at lightning speed up the cement walk which hit Mrs. Cohen on the wrist resulting in a painful bruise. It afterward developed that “Sun Lee”, the Chinese laundryman, threw the hammer at three boys, Oscar Cook, George Gibbons and Orlando Anderson. Mr. Cohen made a complaint before Justice Scott and the policeman brought Sun Lee and these boys before his honor on the charge, the Justice fining them $5 each.

We learn from one of the boys who came near being in the group that evening that the trouble and throwing of the hammer grew out of the fact of the laundry being a too frequent resort of kids. “No good ever results from fooling” is a true saying. It seems that Sunday young Cook exasperated the chinaman when he pulled a squirt gun out of his pocket and “let drive” the contents in the celestial’s face. This was the first culmination of a lot of fooling; the second was when Sun Lee threw the hammer, the third was when the four passed up $20 in fines to help balance the account.

The Police Justice’s advice is for all boys to quit making the laundry a rendezvous for hell deviltry. It looks as if Oscar Cook was the only real guilty one this time, but the others happened to be like “old dog tray” – in “the company” and got a dose of the penalty.