The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-12
Even the Police Judge
Has a Host Of Troubles

to the workhouse and could not let him
out.
The judge went to the telephone and
spent two minutes in explaining to g
business man that it-would be impossi-
bic to keep the name of one of the
business mans clerks off the police
tab. The young man had been arrest
ed in bad company the night before
and was out on bail The business man
grew angry when the judge refused to
suppress the matter so the neWspa-
pers wouldn't get it," and said some
sarcastic things through the phone.
Judge Hine only smiled. He hears
the same kind of q talk every day OF
his life.
Yes, people seem to think we can
do anything for them" said the judge.
only yesterday a woman came here
and told me that her husband had been
drunk for a week and that he had not
been at home for two days. There
was nothing to eat in the house, and
the rent was due. When she had
asked her husband for money, he
knocked her down and left home. !
suggested that she have him arrested
and sent for the city prosecutor to have
him draw a complaint. but the woman
refused to cause her husbands arrest.
She said she wanted me to look for
him and scare him into coming home
and SOLDERING up. The woman left the
office mad when told her that all we
could do was to deal with the man if
he should be arrested.
I'm fully rs per cent of the cases
where people are fined or sent to the
workhouse, we have to listen to story
from either the prisoner, or, in many
instances, some of his influential
friends. Business men who have some
standing in the community cannot I'M
derstand why we do not turn prisoner
loose when they take the trouble to
telephone US and say that the fellow is
a friend of some they know"
These people and their troubles
don't appear to worry you a great deal,
judge" suggested a listener.
oh, l have heard so many of them
that / am now used to them. 1t
would only be more trouble for me if
L were to get mad. l can stand them
all right in the day time. but when
they call me out of bed at night, Tn
admit that l do sometimes get a little
out of humor. =
Not so very long ago I was called
out of bed at o'clock in the morning.
Two young men had been arrested on
charge of larceny, and the fellow
VINO called me up informed me that
they were all right and wanted me
to order their release. He promised
to have them in police court the next
morning. L didn't even know the fell
low who was talking to me, after he
had told his name, and when the two
young men appeared in court the next
day, it was the first time 1 had ever
seen them.
Il am called out of bed on an aver
age of four nights week, but 1 always
make it point to grant no favors to
these. people who disturb my slum-
bers. have enough troubles to listen
to during the day without getting out
of bed to hear more"
Here the Judge was once more In
terrupted. The man who desired to
speak to him was a foreigner and it
was with some difficulty that he in
formed the judge that he lived on the
West side and had for a neighbor a
man who raised chickens. The neigh
Dor owned rooster which had a habit
OF growing at all hours of the night,
and the visitor wanted the Judge to
have the man arrested
you can't arrest a man because his