IRON BAR IN MIDDLE OF SONG.
Warrant Is Issued for Arrest of
Painter Who Used It.
Music hath charms, but not for Henry Ray. Ray is a house painter employed at 1212 East Forty-forth street. Complaint was issued by the prosecuting attorney yesterday, charging him with felonious assault. Jesse Helm was the prosecuting witness.
Helm was musically inclined. He broke the monotony occasionally with a few verses of popular song.
"I was singing this morning," he told Edward J. Curtin, an assistant prosecutor, "when Ray came down from the scaffolding and struck me in the back with an iron bar."
"What were you singing?"
"Oh, simply 'I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Painter,' " said Helm. "He told me I sang as though I had a busted reed in my organ. I can't imagine why it made him sore when I refused to stop."
"I can guess," said Mr. Curtin, and he issued the complaint.
