New-York tribune., 1900-07-22
THE NEWS OF BROOKLYN.
AFFAIRS IN THE BOROUGHS ON LONG LSLAND-HAP-
PENLNGS IN SUFFOLK AND NASSAU
A DAYLN THE POLICE COURTS
HUMOROUS SITUATIONS AND WEIRD
EXPERIENCES REVEALED.

Mark Twain could have spent al enjoyable day
In the Brooklyn police courts yesterday The va
rious humorous phases Of human existence end
weird situations arising from the relationships of
daily life were never more peculiarly displayed
Magistrate Kramer in the Lee-ave. court had a
number of interesting cases First there was the
man with the heavy overcoat who was heir TO all
the woes that ever existed or have been drea med
about and the woman who wanted a man fined
for calling her 'fve-ceut cornCob." and the man
who was arraigned for assault because, as he
says he tried TO escape from the auorous embrace
Of his landlady and had 10 jump out of a two
story window
IN the Butler-st court man accused Of steal
ing coat and vest declared that he could prove
that the accuser had pawned his only coat and
vest two months ago Magistrate Worth had 70 be
the arbitrator in a whskers in the Gates-ave
court-aud there We're many others.
Seedy looking with bushy beard and long. flow
ing hair, wrapped in heavy ulster and shaking
from head to foot. Robert O'Donneu shufFed up
10 the bar in the Lee-ave court He was charged
with being vagrant-
What's the matter?'' asked the Magistrate.
I'm cold" chartered the prisoner
Anything else?'
Yes, I've got kidney trouble"
That ALP"
No; I've got heart trouble nd appendicitis nd
nervous prostration. and I tell you Jidge my
appetite is powerful poor. good square meal
would last a week Try me"
Magistrate Kramer called for a fan and asked
] O'DonneH II he had a home
No" replied O'DonnelL My home is in my
overcOat. 1 keep bundled up for fear of a chill"
We'll" said the Magistrate Il will send you 70
the penitentiary for thirty days There will be no
/ chance OF you getting chill there
/ Then John COSgrih called 10 the bar Of JUS
tice, accused by his wife of being an habitual
drunkard
7 want to live with my wife, but she will not
have me said Cosgrif. I have made up my mind
to 60 West 10 my relatives:
I don't think youH go West replied the Mag
istrate- i think yCuu 90 East. The penitentlary
Is there, where you will reside for six months
He called rve-Cent COrnCOb.' said Mrs.
Mary Leichshead of No. 20 Walton-st., with a
vicious jerk OF her head toward Henry Lutz, ar
raigned for slander-
Dear ne" said the Magistrate. that is too
Yes, it is and I a decent respectable married
| woman
Magistrate Kramer deIved into several musty
looking law books and gravely announced that ne
had discovered that II not against the law 10
swept out Of the room with a snort Of disgust.
John Heinlein, according to his story. Is a much
| abused man He was sent to Jail for days by
Magistrate Kramer on the complaint of Mrs. Char
knocked her down. Eight months ago ne separated
from his wife and went TO live with Mrs. Hart
man Last Saturday ne became reCOnCiled 10 his
I wife. When he told Mrs. Hartman he says she
I hold him in loving embrace. He objected and
! finally broke away and jumped Of the window.
Mrs Hartman followed him (by way of the
| stairsl 10 the court two flights below and con-
| tinqed TO lmportune him TO remain
I just decided 10 sit there" said Heiulein.
| until some one should come my rescue. re-
! matned seated on the ground for twenty minutes
/ and then one OF the bOarders came and helped
! me TO escape. In escaping Mrs. Hartman was
! pushed away and fell, getting a under the
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