The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-28
POLICE COURT.
Two Cases For TrespaSs Were
Up This Morning
Fine Stay.

was restless because the Judge b d
not donned his official robe and called
on all hands for q "show down"
At $50 Officer Mooney yawned
and looked at his watch and said |:
"About time for Murphy TO start for
the free lunch" AS he ceased speak
ing the Judge appeared at the door
putting like porppise
Pm here with both feet in the
judges boots" shouted the court be
tween puffs.
He trok his seat on the Bench,
crossed his legs. wiped perspirstion
from bis bald head and shouted
in voice as loud as an
auctioneer. CHATS off in court" He
then cast his weather eye over the
audience anG at the po:soners' box.
This tribunal is ready to grind its
grist. Whet have you Mr.. eastman,
t, ofer?"
Cashman-Two unfortunat.s and
they don't look bad.
BY li'e's answering grind
Which sometimes hits q fellow sCft,
But moslly is unkind.
Judge-Chas. Kratty, stand up
and face one who has a forgiving
heart and a mellow conscience.
The prisoner stood up with one
hand in his pocket showing a couute-
nonce that wasn't bad.
Judge-You are charged With
trespass.
Kr,tty-I came in here with this
partner Of mine on a freight and
got off at the east end
OF the city. am a
blacksmith and "s,rike while the iron
is a. white heat" Tnat is why /
St uck Sedslis. | worked in st. LOui.
a long time. From there | went to
Birmingham. Mo. Worked Que day.
Then 1 went to Kansas City and
worked one day. Then | Come TO
Sedalia and here l am in the quay"
| was here locking for work.
~ is work wsut, Lot looking round
Nor begging st the door,
For 'handouts,' not bit of il,
ID honest but I'm poor"
Judge-Not bal. Fine you So. 90,
but give you a stay as long as you
behave and s-arch for employment.
And he made a profound bow
which made the cour., officers and
re, or,ers cd their hea Is and a little |
dog that was running around the |
rom bark,d one bark.
Judge-The Mckinley bill don't |
cover bark-its free.
Br. ak break break at the foot of thy |
trunk oh tree,
And l would that nv goat could but, eI
That bill in the deep green sea.
Benjamin Welper stand up"
,hnuted Attorney eastman. Same
charge, may it please your honor-l
stand up and lee tie court diagnose
your Case"
Just sizs il ~ and so decide,
If whisky or store tea,
Was what lid cause your presence here
To hear the courts decree.
Berj1min came to the front with a
firm tread and a red nose. Froa his
appe rance re had, at sometime in
his life, very recently been looking at
"sheep dip" two frequently,
but not wisely.
Judg~-You are up for trespass.
Whit have you TO saw?
Prlsoner-My home is in Quincy,
ILL.,, L worked four years at Mo
berry for the Wabash AMI am a
blacksmith. 1 WIS taken sick and
was taken to the Kansas Cit, hospi-
tai. After that | worked at Birming-
Ram, No.. where [ met Kralt7. III,
afterwaid worked at the Kansas City
,sr wheel works and arrived here last
night. l.
Judge-What did yeu come to
Sedalia for? L.
Prisoner To look for work.
The prisoner exhibited a recon-
mend atom from w. j. Al Her, fore
nan of the Wabash roundhouse, at
Moberly, as to his ability as a work.
nan.
Judge-Find you guilty and give
'ou ''fver" and a stay as long as
-ou behave and hunt for work. |.
Cashman-That's all to day.
The Judge took the cr"ss out of his
egs, closed the big book, waved his
light hand to the officers and grasped
lis tile and went his way. II
The court was done and silence fell Ii
With dull and silent thud,
md naught remained to tell the tale
Save chunks of rich black mud.
Mo phnoa nisaOtapv Nh opo-o III