Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
PAINTED HIM GREEN.
Amusing Result of n Painters Quarrel
With an Awning Hanger.


With an Awning Hanger.
The local color in the Jefferson Mar
ket Police court was mostly green
when the case of the People VS.. Max
Stoloff and David Fitzpatrick was
called. No physiognomies ever beamed
more effulgently than did those or
the two prisoners arraigned before Ma
gistrate Brann. David Fitzpatrick,
whose face would have caused glow
of appreciation to burn within the ar
tistic soul of the late Aubrey Boards
ley, was most artistically daubed with
green paint, from the roots of his hair
to the tip of his chin. His appearance
bore testimony to the fact that Max
Stolloff is a painter. The parts OF
Fitzpatrick's face which the brush OF
Stolloff had neglected stood out in
pale relief, sand contrast to the YER
dure surrounding them. An erstwhile
black moustach dropped greenly over
his mouth. Underneath the paint
Fitzpatrick's face was sad. 1t was
plain that he felt the indignity of his
position.
Stolloff, who literally stood in the
reflected glory of Fitzpatrick's face,
was prevented from smiling as content
edly as he might at sight of his handi-
work by an aching void, which filled
the space formerly occupied by two or
his front teeth. In his impressionist
work on Fitzpatrick he had himself
been bit splashed with green. In the
greenness which irradiated from the
two Magistrate Brann looked pale.
"It was this way" said Stolloff, in
voice thickened and impeded by swol-
len lips: L was in his way, and he told
me, and then told him l wanted to
paint the front of the house, only he
wanted to hang the awning, and 1
moved away to give him room, and
told him he had no right to do so, but
he hit me in the mouth and broke two
teeth for me-" Here Stolloff opened
his mouth and showed the aching void.
With the solemnity of Solomon, Ma
gistrate Brann asked the injured paint
er if the teeth were false, which was
Indignantly denied, Stolloff adding,
but suppose the next ones will be-
ne magistrate WOulu uOC So ihto
that, however, and turning an unused
eye upon the toothless man, continued
his catechizing:
Then when he struck you, you
turned about and painted him?'
Eyes, sir; that's all l can do. That's
my trade" answered Stolloff.
Magistrate Brann turne.l to Fitzpat-
rick. There was a long contemplation
before the judicial lips opened.
Kirkpatrick I con tell by your face
that you're Irish" he said.
The awning hanger had to admit
that the magistrates acumen was not
at fault.
But, man, DEAR" continued ,he
court in a rich brogue, 'tis a beastly
shame to give you a French goatee."
Fitzpatrick again admitted that
them were his sentiments"
You are not as green as you are
painted, however" resumed the court.
Tell me how you came to be deco
rated"
Fitzpatrick declared that he was en-
gagged in putting up an awning in front
of Hudson street house when Stollofi
appeared on the scene with paint and
brushes and peremptorily ordered him
to desist from hanging his awning. as
he totolloff) had another coat of paint
to apply to the building.
"The paint was green, your honor"
said Fitzpatrick.
"Yes," replied Magistrate Brann,
"'tis evident on the face of it."
"Well," went on Fitzgerald, 81 told
him would put up the awning in spite
of him, and he swashed me with his
paint brush; then | hit him."
The magistrate sermoned the chro-
matte Fitzgerald for behaving like "a
kid" and submitted to both prisoners
the alternative of paying $40 fine each
or of accepting discharge. The.
choice was left to Stolloff, who was the
complainant. After moments hesi-
taJion and a glance at Fitzpatrick:
"I'll call it square" said the painter.
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