Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-12-29

young lady upon whom waggisb
caller bounced one evening arrayed
"en diable.n She fell in a tit and be-
came a raving maniac.
In Robson County, Y. C., recently.
little James Phillips young friends I'M
dertook to cure him of being "scary
by visiting the house during his parents
absence, trying the doors, etc. The
fright killed him.
AT Dennison, o.. an American humor-
ist gave little girl two railroad-torpe-
does, telling her they were candy pack
ages. to be opened with a hammer. She
lost both ewes in opening them.
At Bombay. in October, n schoolboy
came behind young companion, put
his hands over his friends eyes and
babe him guess who it was" The
boy struggled to escape, the joker tight
ened his grasp, and the victim was fair
" gouged," the crystalline lens being
broken.
In Brooklyn, T.. D.. the favorite joke
is stretching a line across the street To
catch passers in the evening under the
chin After a girl had been thrown
down and had suffered a fracture of the
skull the authorities took action and the
next offender was fined five dollars.
In ST. Louis it costs one dollar TO
place split cork on the nose of Il
sleeper. ornament it with matches and
light them.
James Stewart, n salOOn-keeper in
New York City, kept galvanic battery
which the unwary were encouraged to
believe was lifting 1t proved
a great attraction until one of the sub
jects sued for damages and got two hun
dred dollars, with one hundred and fifty
dollars costs.
The Court at West Newbury, Mass,
rendered recently a curious decision in
the law of practical joking. Isaac
Hibbs and sundry of his companions
plotted to amuse an old gentleman by
heaving rock through his window.
He overheard them. hid in the shrubbery
in his undershirt. and bounced on
them. All ran away but Hibbs, who
knocked the old man down several
times. The old man brought action.
but Hibbs pleaded that he Thought it
was ghost. and he wasn't going To
run from no ghost,' and the Court
ruled that if he was possessed of the
idea that it was 4 ghost there was no
assault.
II will shoot you, | believe, Ham. "
said playful young lady of Matagorda
County. Texas. to Mr.. Hamilton Rug
ley, pointing pistol at him. The ball
struck him in the throat and killed him.
(P. S.-She did not know it was loaded.)
At Peru, n. j., last month, Mr.. John
ii. Wolfe called on Miss Melinda T.
Jacobus. intending to take her out for a
walk. While she was preparing he
playfully pointed a gun at her and
threatened TO shoot her. II went off
and inflicted fatal wound. In New
jersey, the careless handling of fire
arms, where it results in death, is an Of
tense subjecting the offender to trial for
manslaughter. In the case of the State
against Hardie, the defendant was held
guilty of manslaughter for killing
woman in attempting to brighten her
with pistol which he supposed to be
unloaded.
In Virginia Daingerfield against
Thompson), where some spOrtive youths
pounded at n saloOn-door and gave a
salute" with q pistol, when the proprie-
tor opened ii, shooting him in the foot.
the Court gave $1,000 damages, wilful
firing of a pistol in a city street, even
without malice. being unlawful. The
mulcted defendant was the person who
had urged the pistol bearer to salute"
The cases of Fenton, Powell, Roane,
Martin. Waters, Conrahy and others
might be quoted. but that of Ewington
will suffice, where certain mad ways
banked drunken man up with straw
and threw hot Goals on it, burning him
to death. The verdict was manslaugh-
ter. the Court charging thatif they real
ly intended any serious injury, though
not to kill the deceased. it was murder,
but if the intention was only to fright
an him in snort II was mans auohtar