The evening times., 1896-06-16
OFFICERS FUNNY BREAK
Hendrix Told How He'Snuck
Up" on a Lawbreaker.
PRISONERS FIT IN COURT
He Had Been on a Spree and Was Bor-
dering ON Delirium Tremens.
Judge KimbalI's Legal Uncertainty
About Della Penn's Guilt-He Was
Morally Sure of 1t, However.

Policeman Kennedy had the first case this
morning, and a very peculiar one IL was.
He lost 1t, thanks to Judge Kimbalfs dis
cernneHt and the honest story told by the
prisoner, Waiter Thomas.
Thomas is u colored man in the employ of
the Independent Ice Company. He begins
work at an early hour in the morning, load
ing ice on the wagons at the wharf.
Thomas was on his way to his labors last
night about / 2 O'Clock. At the corner of
Eleventh and Virginia avenue lie sat on the
curb, waiting for Belt Line car.
Thomas, resting comfortably against a
tree, fell fast as.eep. He was awakened by
Kennedy's heavy hand on his shoulder,
shaking him. Kennedy, in spite of Thomas
explanations and protests, locked him up
for obstructing the sidewalk.
The officer told Judge kirnball he thought
the prisoner was sleeping off a drunk.
'.How about that, my man." asked the
court. Had you been drinking?"
Not a drop, 20 onnah," replied the
defendant, IN entirely respectable appear
ing fellow Il was goin' to my work at
the Independent Ice Cos storehouse, an
sittin' down waitin' for Il cyar fell asleep"
Thomas said lie was surprised when the
officer aroused him.
Take this mans bonds,' said his honor
TO Clerk Potts and Thomas was released,
but he is out days wages and maybe
his job.
JoLLIED THE JUDGE.
George Curry is a Weary Willie, who
knows how to Jolly judge. He was ar
rested for vagrapcy by Officer Kennedy,
who found him in freight car in the
MarylaDd-avenue yards of the Baltimore
and Potomac railroad.
Curry needed hair cut, shave, shoes
and suit of clothes, but he did not re-
quire nerve.
step up here, Curry" said the judge;
NOW what where you doing in that carr"
Curry's various battles with police court
justices in different parts of the United
States have given him a valuable experience
and rendered him capable to cope with all
searching questions THAI may be put to
him.
Yer amer" he answered, in n frank
way. I'm goin' to give yer the truth
of the thing. ! was in that car gettin ready
to shake the town. I've been in wash'n'o
week hustn' fer a job, an luck's dead
agin me. Yer see. iedge, ] amt got the
front ter ketch on
THE what" asked his honor.
The front" repeated Curry. ~ mean
! amt got no clothes ter create an i'm.
huoW- iuuSC- WHti man
seedy. nobody's goin TO have him round"
Where do you come from, CUrry?" said
fle court.
"Philadelply.'
why didn't you stay theTeo''
Curry said work was slack. and he had
heard so much of Washington he thought
he would try his chances here.
You'd been much better off home" re
marked the court, taking Curry's per-
sonal bnods on his promise to leave town
Immediately.
CAUSED A PANIC.
Binghanptou Buckley, "a tall, lank, sandy
compiexioned young man, arrested for va
grancy, created a panic among the pris
oncrs in the pen. All the morning he had
whispered TO woman, setting DeXtto him
that "he felt 'em coming on,'' meaning ht
was bordering on the Jim jams. When he
was put on the stand, after Policeman Eng
lish, told the court the defendant had beer
on a terrible spree, Buckley was SO uu
nerved, he could hardlytalk.
What the officer says is true STAN
nlered the un fortunate prisoner. every
muscle in his face twitching involuntarily
II have been drunk; on periodical spree.
What do you do it for?' questioned the
court.
Il can't help it," answered Buckley, his
face becoming distorted and deadly pale
Il have work now waiting for me-
he continued, - and If you let me go III
swear off for a year.
mo you had better go down for short
time" decided the court, land get the
whisky out of you. I'll make the sentence
light; fifteen days
THANK you. Sir" said Buckley, stagger
ing off the stand. As he reached the en-
trance to the dock he gave wild scream
falling with a crash to the floor, and scar
ing the inmates of the pen ont OF their wits
He was in the clutches of an epileptic fit
His face changed to a lead color, and The
foam buhbling through his lips ran down his
cheeks, mixing with the blood flowin.
from cut on his chin where he had struck
in falling.
The bailiffs lifted bBuckley, rigid ant
stiff. carrying him to the corridor near thu
cells, where they aided him as best the,
could until DR.. Ransom from the healtl
office arrived.
After the doctor had been with the pa
tient five minutes. he came out and recon-
meDded Ia the Judge that the man he sen
10 the hospital atoDce, which was done.
HE sNUCK UP.
Policeman Hendrix must have been tn,
small boy, who, when asked why he ran
out of school. replied that he was told I,
sneak and he sn uck.
He was testifying this morning agains
Della Penn, whom he accused of cursin,
for three consecutive hours in her hous
in an alley. The testimony developed th
fact that the officer forced the door o