Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-27


assaulted. with intent tsd kill. Chinese
laundryman. The Italian stood mute in the
presence Of the judge and jury, and shook
his head dumbly whe4 the young English
speaking lawyer assigned to defend him
terpreter had to be etAxsrsummoned from
another court in another building.
Then the judge DIRECTED the Chinaman.
whose head was Virtually hidden by ban
stood mute He didn't ktend to let the
Italian get the Indians Ign on him." as
the saying goes. with respect to having
an interpreter. The court had to thrum
on the desk and gaze at the ceiling while
a court scout went in search of a Chinese
interpreter. 81
Then the Italian Ha4 sconvicted. The
bandage-swathed Chink 1eaned over to the
box in which the prisnerstood
Il hope you get two year" he said to
the strengthening Italian.
go to HI" replied the Italian who had
demanded an interpreter.
Inquisitiveness Answered.
It doesn't do to be inquisitive with re-
spect to a New York cop. One of them, a
huge chap, boarded an 9Th avenue car the
other afternoon. carrying In his arms
poor little ragged buzzard Of a lost child
a girl tot not more than three years old
with golden curls and blue eyes peering
out through very dirty face.
It was perfectly obvious to everybody on
the car. except one pompous-looking wo-
man. that the child was lost and that the
big cop was carrying the young one to the
police station. there to be called for later
on by it's anguished and excited mother
The pompous-looking woman on the car to
whom the fact was not patent that the
tot was lost turned around in her seat
and gazed at the child through her glasses
Dear me. officer. she said. addressing
the giant cop. us the little one lost?''
k1o R..rv
half minute a disdainful look on his face
before he replied to her out Of one corner Of
his mouth:
Nav. She's pinched. I nailed her steal
in lead pipe"
Jewish Divorces.
The judges Of the New York courts are at
length taking steps to put stop to the
rabbis divorces, which have come to be a
very great evil over here. 1t Is authorita-
lively stated that the rabbis grant thou
sands of these divorces every year, a state
ment that is readily believable in view OF
the fact-which ihay not be generally
knOwn-that 26 per cent, or more than one
fourth of all of the population of Manhat-
tan Island are Jewish.
The Hebrew of the Ghetto who Is hauled
before a trial judge on a charge Of bigamy
produces his rabbits divorce, all duly sign
ed, sealed and delivered. and up to recently
the courts found themselves compelled, not
legally, of course. but for other reasons, to
accept these rabbis' divorces as bona flde
and binding. But there Is not nor has
there ever been any warrant whatever in
American law why they should be so &C
cepted, and the Judges are now announcing
that they intend to do their utmost to stop
the Ghetto divorces.
Not only will the rabbis' divorces no
longer be accepted in extenuatiOn of
bigamy, but the rabbis have been warned
from several benches that they are violat-
inc fhn To- Of fIr Iov, t.,
their people to be able to grant legal d.
vorces and in granting them upon that
profession, and that they will be severely
punished in the future if detected in the
handling of Illegal divorce papers.
A Playful Mother-in-Law.
There is a mighty frank police magistrate
over in South Brooklyn:5 snappy-eyed
young woman had her man" before this
police magistrate the other afternoon on
the accusation that he didn't support her.
The snappy-eyed young woman's Ratchet
faced and vastly more snappy-e mother
was in court giving her daughter volubIe
moral support. q 90
Look here. my mar" said the ma gistrate
to the prisoner, what ails you. anyhow?
Why don't you support your wife?"
= The prisoner, manly and serious-looking
fellow, told his story. He was perfectly
willing to support his wife, he said, but he
simply would not live with his mother-in-
law. .. z -
His mother tn-law had a playful little hap-
1t upon the slightest proyoca ton of beating
him over the head with the knobbed handle
of heavy umbrella. or pushing him down.
stairs in the dark when she got chance to
sneak up behind him. of throwing dishware,
cusp1dors. potato Washers. fiatironS, skill
lets, rolling pins and all sorts of house
hold bijouterie at him.
He had tried for two years to live in
peace with his mother-in-law as a part of
his menage but he had given it up. and
he would rather go to prison for life, he
told the judge. than ever try it again. He
was occupying. he went on, completely
furnished cottage right across the street
from where his mother-in-law lived with
her daughter. his wife. He had repeatedly
asked his wife to return to him. but she
had refused absolutely unless he permitted
her mother to come along too. Then she
had had him arrested for non-support -.
Get out of this court" said the court to
the snappy-eyed complainant, land your
mother too. And get out quick. You have
no standing here. This decent man. your
husband. is willing to care and provide for
you II you return to him. There's nothing
in law. and certainly nothing in common
sense. to compel him to provide for your
mother In addition. much less to put up
with her in his home. A man who will live
with his mother-in-law Is a fool, anyhow,
and I m not talking from hearsay. but from
experience. Courts adjourned"
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