The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-31
KISSED A .eDREAM, AT THE GATE.

From the New York Times.
Charged with the heinous crime of
kissing his best girl good night at the
gate. August Kuhn, 10 years old, of
161 Wythe avenue. Brooklyn, was ar
Paigned in the Lee Avenue Court, that
borough, yesterday. Magistrate Hig-
ginbotham advised the policeman who
had made the brilliant capture to get
transferred to Atlantic City or Ocean
Grove. The kissable girls of Williams
burg, where there are none but kiss
able girls, were in a perfect riot of
indignation over the arrest, and it was
feared at one time that a mob of them
might hunt the policeman UP and
lynch him.
According to what came out in court,
August is sweet" on dream" liv-
ing in South Sixth street. On Friday
night he and the girl took a trolley ride
together and returned to her home at
about IL o'clock. The pale light of the
moon filtered gently down through the
foliage of the trees, but where they
stood at the gate there was shadow.
The street was deserted and the neigh
borhood wrapt in slumber. 1t was time
to say good night, but August, under
termined, tarried. He had held her
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coming back on the car, but was that
to be all?
"Good-good night" he said softly,
slowly, gripping the gate as though he
had designed to carry it off with him.
Apparently supposing that to be his
purpose, and meaning to thwart it, she
too, chung to the gate and moved not.
Good night" she responded, tight
ening her grip on the gate and inclin-
ing her head inst q LITTLE bit fnx p6
him, merely to get a better view of
the street
''Wen l must be going" said August,
moving off foot and sliding back
eighteen inches.
Good night. then" she repeated
wistfully and with downcast eyes.
She turned slowly, as if to go up the
steps, August reached forward over the
gate suddenly and swiftly, and-well,
it was just about then that a dark
form stole softly up the street and
stopped nearby. A gruff voice frac-
tured the silence of the night.
Il seen yer do it," it said.
Startled, August came back to earth
with dull, sickening thud, and turn
ing found himself confronted by an of
ficer of the law. 1t was Policeman
Jacket of the Bedford Avenue Station.
you are under arrest" he announced
to the dazed and confused August, lug
ging him heartlessly off to the lookup.
Led before Magistrate Higginbotham
in the morning, August wondered
whether he was to be sent up for life
or would get merely thirty years at
hard labor
What is this young man charged
With" asked the court, looking sternly
at the distressed and fearful August.
"Kissin, yer honor" said the police
man impreSSiVelV 81 caught him get
tin away with the goods"
Giving ear to the story of the awful
crime the magistrate shuddered now
and then and took frequent sips of ice
water. August, fearing the worst,
stood with bowed head, awaiting his
fate. The tale done, Magistrate Hig-
ginbotham cleared his throat and
spoke.
young man." he said, you are
sentenced to go back to her on the run
and begin where you left off. If there
was another one coming to you when
this officer butted in, go back in a
hurry and get it. And take with you
to the girl the humble apologies of the
people of the state of New York. Off,
Ger, 1 would advise you to get shifted
to the Asbury Park Boardwalk
And wherever good night was being
said at a front gate in Williamsburg
last night it was agreed that Magis-
trate Higginbotham should get Judge
Parker's old place at the head of the
Court of Appeals