St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-17

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driving faster than six miles an hour"
Don't know what you'd call reckless
driving"
'Driving faster than six miles an hour
constitutes the offense. What is your
plea?"
81 don't think 1 was driving faster
than that. for the old horses couldn't go
that fast"
Its poor horse that can't travel six
miles an hour; that's little faster than a
man can walk. Here, the officer says
yon ran overa man. WHAT'S your plea?'
Guilty." came the response dog
gedly. but I'd like to EXPLAIN
Umh! umh! umhl
A series of inarticulate sounds from
the back of the room broke in on the
explanation the jehu was making about
trying to get man to the train from
the West hotel, and man with
bandaged head limped hurrledly up to
the Judge.
"Umh! umh! whw!" calculated the
tattered fellow. attracting the judges
attention. Striking himself in the
breast, he fell backward, catching him.
self Just on the balance line; quickly he
mOtioned across his breast, then grab
bling his hat he struck across it and held
it up, to the light for the judge to see
the holes in it. He kept going over
these motions with variations, like
lightning.
'He says you struck him with the
pole of the hack and ran over him." in
ternreted the iudge
"The wheels didn't go over him."
answered the iehu. II yelled, but. of
course, he, be'un 'eaf, didn't hear"
The mute caught the sense of the de-
Mai and mOtioned to show that the
wheel just graZed his head.
No interpreter could be found. but
the mute, whose name was found to be
n . 5ESlenser, secured pencil and paper
and wrote out the statement that he was
run over at the city hall crossing on
Nicollet at 10 o'clock the night before,
and then taking a seat, he kept up his
Windmill gestures, explaining the mat
ter to each officer in turn.
you have driven hack here in the
city long enough to know the Ordi-
itances." began the judge. You are
ortunate in being here on the charge of
fast driving instead of murder, as you
Among the occupants of the ''bull
pen," as the narrow paSsageway in
which the prisoners sit previous to ar
raignment is called. was Gordon 5.
Hazeltine, the individual for whom t.
J. Leftwich has begun an action in the
district court against the GLOBE to re-
cover $4,000 damages for alleged in
jury to character and good name by the
N,,l. nE
which HaZeltlne was committed to the
hospital for the insane at Rochester.
Mr.. HaZeltine sat cycling the ceiling
until the name of Joseph Peters, was
called, when he came forward and
pleaded not guilty, with very defiant
air, to the charge of being drunk.
Officer Schroeder testified that
about II o'clock Tuesday night,
when he was on NicOllet avenue,
man named Burke came to him
and asked him to arrest man who was
drunk and making insulting remarks in
the hearing of ladies at the corner of
Washington and First avenues south.
1t was off his beat, but he went to the
locality mentioned, and found Hazeltine
there in an intoxicated condition. He
gave Hazeltine the option of going home
or being locked up. HaZeltine chose
the former alternative. but, instead OF
going home, lodged into the first con-
venient alleyWay, the officer thought
for the purpose of going to sleep, so he
was locked up. Court o fficer Pierce
testified that at o'clock in the evening
HaZeltine was drunk and abusive,
and was ordered away from
the municipal court. Sergeant Leonard
testified that shortly afterwards Hazel
tine was drunk at Lameraux'S saloon
on Hennepin avenue, and was indulg-
ing in abusive language about Judge
Emery and the municipal court. W. ii.
Wright reporter for the Journal, had
noticed Hazeltne drunk in front of the
Bjou opera house. This would have
been evidence sufficient to convict an
ordinary drunk, but this wasn't an or
binary drunk. Hazeltine acted as his
own lawyer and examined the police
men. cross examined them. and put
hypothetical questions to them until an
hour or more had been consumed. Then
he demanded that certain witnesses
should be called in his behalf. Accord
ingly they were sent for. A hickman
testified that he saw Hazeltine at 10
O'Clock, and didn't think he was
drunk. One saloonkeeper said Hazel
tine had been drinking at his
place and the bartender had been in
strueted not to sell him any more liquor.
another salOOnkeeper had seen him.
but couldn't say whether he was drunk
cor not.
Finally Judge Emery said, YEARLY:
You have taken up the time OF this
court long enough. | think you were
drunk, and you will pay fine OF $50 or
go TO the wOrkhouse for thirty days"
AT this Hazeltine dropped his lofty
.air and begged that the fine should be
srednced. He was all old citizen, and
nefer been before the court for this
sOffense." Gle put emphasis On the word
s.'tilis.'') Besides, he could not pay his
fine, and had an important suit in the
district court the 18th, which ne couldn't
attend to ii he went to the workhouse.
Z The court, however, was Ob6urate,
and said: You were under the in
fiuence of liquor in this court room yes
terday and you were elected by the
court officers. You went ont of here
and ventilated your own ideas of JUS
tice. You are not being punished for
that, but the citizens must be protected
from insult on The streets. You have
nut the court to considerable trouble
when you knew what the only result
could be- Under the circumstances the
punishment is very light"
Judge Emery, however. gave Hazel
tine the opportunity to go out and hunt
up the amount of his fine. which he was
unable TO OBTAIN. and SO was locked up
in Cell IL at the central station. and
will probably go to the workhouse to-
day.
II work in the sewer" answered
Samuel And ,rsoa in answer to Judge
Emery squestion as to what employ ment
he was engaged in.