The evening times., 1896-10-21
APPEAL OF THE OFFICER
Asked for Leniency Toward a
Man He Arrested.
HIBBS' FIRST TINE IN COURT
He Mixed Whisky and Politics-The
Pathetic Story of a Man Who Has
Been IA High ROller.When Money
Departed His Friends Also Tosk
Wings-Other Typical Cases.

Like Abou Ben Adams, let his name be
written above all the rest Soft-heaIted
Policeman Carlson pleaced with Judge
klDban this morning to be merciful to a
man he was compelled To arrest last night
because OF his arunkencss and disorderly
Conduct
lie prisoner was Benjamin Hibbs, a man
nf family, who disc cussed politics in an
Z street saloon last night, with whisky on
the side. Unfortunately theie was more
whisky than argument. At12 O'clock the
saicon keeper shovcu Hibbs out. advising
him to &c home.
Poor Hibbs staggered to the corner and
ciasped. as he thought, seven electric
light poles, although there was but one.
| At intervals he would give wild wbooas
for Mckinley, and then nod, humping his
| head against the post,
Finally his grasp relaxed and he sank
| on the pavement, the fierce s.rcaIaing light
from above giving his face u strange pallor.
Carlson, patrolling his beat, saw him,
and after some difficulty got him on his
feet and awakened him.
Come, old fellow said the good -natured
officer, ''get brace on yourself and go
home"
HpSs YEARLY uplifted his eyeiids, as
il they we're coated with lead, disclosing
eyes the color of a plover's egg. and asked
Carlson " hether he was a Mckinley or
a Bryan man. Carlson. holding Hibbs in a
firm grasp To keep him from falling, said
he had no politics.
THE OFFICERS KINDNESS
"Man without country 'hiccoughed Hi5bs,
and then sfpalyiup himself he bpm3 nue1
that Carlson release him
.'Why, you'd break your neck on the
cobblestones,' 'admonished the officer. You
come with me and I'll put you where you can
sleep your jag off and get out in the morn;
ing
Take your hands off me-" demanded
Hubs, with drunke.i dignity. I'm 'Merican
citizen an Mckinley voter"
Wien the officer refused to release him
he cursed Carlson so loudly it aroused the
LeIghborhood, and the policeman locked
him cell at No. l station.
This morning Iiibbs was wan and nerv-
Gus as he advanced rorlornly TO where Carl
son stood.
Judge" said the latter, II under
stand this man has wife and family and
has never been arrested before, and l
"otDh iht your Duupi W bt Easy WIN
for their sake"
Carlson's broad, blonde face grew seri-
Gus as he thought of his own little ones
Come around and tell me about your
SELF said the court, kindly, to the de
fendant
Your bonor,' said Hibbs, his teeth
chattering," 1 drank little too much last
night and must have misbehayed myself.
l have never been arrested before.
"If you keep on drinking YOU wlll,' said
the judge. The officer says good word
for you, and III take your bonds
Hibbs departed a happy man.
Time was when Jack Anderson cracked
wine, dined like Luculus. aiG, as "A high
roller, moved in that circle which knows
no sorrow, because men must be- happy tc
live ethere-Bohemia. But the end came, as
it is bound to come To every man who goes
the pace that kills and mclts the tallUw at
both ends.
Anderson's roll at best was not much -four
thousand or so, he got as a legacy from an
old aunt, who stInted herself for years 10
accumulate it.