The evening times., 1896-07-08

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Lum and Bobbie have a deep-rooted con-
viction that work is injurious to health,
and in a religious observance OF that be-
lief have abstained from labor for years.
Lum, in the elegant argot of the road,
told his partner how he played flat on
the feed game, got stake, wentup against
a boozing ken, was pipei off by the sucker
and got pinched."
In explaining how Dame Fortune had
turned her capricious favors from him he
said If it rained gold dollars 1t would be
his luck to lose his hands or go blind.
"Lum' was equally melancholy. He
Offered 10 bet dirty clay pipe and q
cigarette against nickel that they both
got sixty days.
"I'll take you, pard," assented the
other, who all his life has been taking
almost anything he can get his hands on.
'Lum" was arraigned first, and when
Clerk Harper, known affectionately to
his friends by the same nickname, called
"Lum Br-r-rown," the defendant tapped
mis- pudgy nose and said, "Kerlumbus
Brown, kernel; I'm named after the old
skate wot diskivered where you and me
lives
Allf.D ~ WYNN HIM.
The flat in the case was Mr.. ossie
Klinger, one of the telephone operators
at police headquarters. He told.the court
Brown asked him for money yesterday
10 buy hot soup.
II gave him some change" said Mr..
KliDger, ''and watched him 20 in saloon
and spend the money over the bar"
Columbus will do that every time said
the court.
Mr.. Klinger told Policeman Sprinkle, who
arrested Brown as .'vag"
Judge Kimball told Brown it was a mean
trick to beg money for food and then buy
whisky.
II needed that drink in me biziness,"
said Brown.
And you need thirty days in the work
house with it, said the Judge Step
aside"
''Lum'' nudged "Bobbie" as he passed
back, and cautioned him to be careful in
what he SAID. "'Cause If you make a
break, he won't do a thing ter YOU ad-
monishcd Brown.
MADE HIS FLASH.
step up, Bobbie ani make your FASH"
said kendig to Miller, after Policeman
Narrower told the court the defendant was
a chronic ''vag"
Miller, with his face dark and tanned
from exposure, covered by a struggling
beard, beat the devils TATTOO on the rail
ana seemed to be tongue-tied.
How long have you been tramping?"
asked the court.
six months" said Miller, who might
l,ox 10,
been nearer the truth.
"Where do you come from?"
''st. Luce" answered Bobbie, Use Jest
fresh from there"
'LOoks like a free silver man." TESTED
Mr.. Pugh in an aside to the clerk.
Miller's squick ears caught the remark
Yer kin bet I'm fer any old thing wot.
free he said
You get thirty days days" remarked
the judge, dryly, and Bobby tracked his
way silently. owing to his broken shoes, to
the cell. where Lum was breeding over his
wrongs.
Judge Kimball delivered short address
ON profanity today. Policeman Owens ar
rested yesterday Henry Brown for swear
ing on E street southeast
Owens and his partner had A lonzo Perry,
just released from Jail. under arrest for as
sauting his wife, when, it is alleged by
Policeman Brown, one of the mob following
theofficers tothe box said .itwas
to persecute man like that" He was
promptly collared by Owens and sent to
the station-hous in the patrol wagon with
Perry.
Browns lawyer admitted his clients
guilt, but asked the court to consider the
circumstances under which the profanity
was used.
at was only heard by the officers" :"
said the attorney.
"officers," remarked the court, "are
entitled to protection from profanity as
much as anybody else.''
The lawyer insiDuated that sometimes
they employed the force of emphatic oaths
| themselves.
The judge refused to take notice of the
thrust, and continued his lecture, "All
| people" he said, shave a right to pro-
lection by the law from vile language, 1
have often had my ears tingle from hear
| Ing oaths used by meg in ordinary conver.
saton. The prisoner is fined $5.''
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.
There was considerable conflicting testi-
| mony in the case of John Taylor young
man arraigned for disorderly conduct yes
terday in Seaton Park.
Taylor had been locked up al might, and
had a miserable appearance as he entered
a plea of not guilty.
Special Officer Davis, fat, red-faced
man, in sleepy way, told the court that
Taylor was drunk and staggering over the
park. He also accused him of using pro-
| fame language at the box.
Taylor denied flatly that he was full or
| transgressing the law. very stout wo-
man. whose name did not come out, swore
that she met Ia ylor, and as he lived In her
neighborhood, they walked along together.
when we reached the park" she said,
tive stopped to rest. This man Davis came
up and told US to move on. johnnie said
| he would in a minute. Without giving him
any time, the officer pulled him by the coat
and told him he wa going to lock him up.'
Judge Kimball raised his heavy eyebrows
in faint surprise.
But the officer states Taylor was drunk,
he said.
"He wasn't. as far as I could see," said
the witness. HE certainly wasn't stagger
ing. and that's the only way can tell when