, 1884-06-14
A JUDICIAL CIRCUS
A Few Women on the Vocabulary War.
path Make II Lively.

Day before yesterday, Officer Sullivan
was sent for by a woman residing on Eddy
street, near Fifteenth and was told by him
that she had been called some pretty hard
names by near neighbors of hers of the
female persuasion and she wanted them
locked right straight up in Jail" The
officer informed her that he could do
nothing of the kind, and hat she must
first make complaint if there was any
thing wrong and then he could act. Lat
er in the day the aggrieved sister appear
ed before Judge Lee and swore out a war
rant against vocabulary sister No. ?,
charging her with using some very un-
pretty language indeed to her. Armed
with a warrant, Officer Sullivan
hunted up the offender and on yesterday
the fair sister, whose tongue it had been
said was the cause of all the difficulty,
meekly ushered herself into the presence
of Your Honor" Her accuser was
there and in fact they were all there, not
only the two principals in the controversy,
but their sisters and their cousins and
their aunts, - as the old man Pinafore
says. If Billy Luce had only had his
wits about him and thought about it in
time, he would have made more money
Of the judicial circus which was opened
0 o after their arrival than did the great
consolidated when it held forth in
Cheyenne. There was more talking and
jabbering done in that court room for
about half an hour than there will be
when Cap'n Gabriel toots the fog horn.
Six bits would have been just no price at
all for that sort of a performance;
The Court told vocabulary sister No.
. that she evidently had not been
quite as good as she ought to be and he
read over the complaint. The accused
vocabulary sister responded and said she
did make the remarks she was charged
with making. The Court suggested that
he would like to see Sl3, which was
promptly produced, and thereupon this
sister who had paid up turned around and
swore out q complaint against sister No.
l for calling her offensive names, and she
insisted that she ought to pay a fine also.
The first sister thought she had used the
words attributed to her, and the court
said Sl3 again. At this %juncture a vocab-
ulary sister No. 3 came to the front and
insisted that she had been called some
hard names by sister No. ., and if there
was anything which was wanted at that
time more than another it was that her
character be vindicated. The court
by this time had bee me thoroughly
disguised with the whole Proceedings and
promptly informed all pa ties interested
that he would not take any more compli-
ments, and advised all hands to 90 home
and behave themselves. They all finally
adjourned, but Sister No. 3, it seems,
wanted to be indicated, and hence got
out a warrant against No. 9 also. In due
time all hands were rounded up at Judge
Fishers Office, where the same scenes
were enacted, but with a somewhat differ
ent result, as the court, after hearing the
evidence, dismissed the case. These wo-
men are not members of that class found
in certain disreputable houses, but are re-
spectacle and law abiding people. If they
will allow the suggestion to be made, it is
far better to endure a little of that which
is disagreeable than to parade themselves
in the public courts of the city as they did
yesterday,