Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-20

CHAUFFEUR ARRESTED.
For Exceeding the Speed Limit
in Automobile.
THE LONGWORTHS INSIDE
Hold-Up Occurred at Florida and
Massachusetts, Avenues.
FINALLY WENT SCOT FREE
Much Telephoning From the Police
Court About the Case-Facts
About the Serenade,

| their chauffeur, Sam Luttrell, had to appear
| at the Police Court this morning for vio-
| lating the speed limit. 1t did not bother
| any one very much Representative Long
worth and his bride were out OF the Juris-
diction of the court long even before the
| papers were made out. The bicycle cop
| had all his trouble for nothing, and the
chauffeur got off with an Indefinitely contin-
| ued case and did not even have to put up
| So collateral.
| Officially Luttrell did not appear in court
| at all. But he was there none the less, and
| Policeman Cole. who arrested him, was
| there. too. ready to swear If need be that
| Samuel had been warned three times before
about violating the speed limit. But the
| case never came up ard after telephone
| bells had been juggling between headquar-
| ters and the Police Court and there had
| been more fuss over the phantom S. than
| II 1t had been an $500 liquor license, the
| case was continued indefinitely and the
guilty chauffeur strolled nonchala ntly out of
court, untarnished in reputation and I'M
| touched in pocket. but dreadfully oppressed
don't you know, by the fetid atmosphere OF
| the old temporary court building down on
10th street and putting vigorously at a
Turkish cigarette to take the taste out of
his mouth.
Where the Hold-Up Occurred.
The hold-up occurred In the neighborhood
the details of the charge covered a large
sheet of fine print, setting forth how one
Samuel Luttrell of the District and county
aforesaid did then and there propel or
cause to be propelled horSeleSS vehicle at
a rate of speed greater than twelve miles
per hour in violation of the police regulations
and contrary to the peace and dignity of
the District, etc.
Policeman Cole was on his bicycle while
the lovers were fleeing from the curious
and on their way to meet the train
at Alexandria He thought they
were skirting perilously close to the
speed limit. Cole put out after them and,
when he tackled on to the back of the
machine, found that his speedometer was
pointing up in the neighborhood of twenty
two miles per hour He yelled as we'll as
he could for the car to stop. swallowed a
mouthful of dust in the effort. and did not
half appreciate the dignity with which the
gentleman in the tall hat on the back seat
motioned him away-much the same ges-
ture that the hero uses on the stage when
he tells the villain to take back his gold.
Policeman Cole did not know who the oc-
cupants of the automobile were. He was
as innocently ignorant as the driver from
the bureau of standards who "cussed OUT
the Presidents coachman last spring So
he hung onto the automobile till the speed
went up to thirty miles hour. and in
sistently coughed out his demands for it to
stop.
Sam LuttreH has been through 1t all be-
IOft. he was uStu 10 getting QdulGu uD
for fast driving and he knew his passen-
gers and his employer were good Tor any
fine the court might choose to impose. But
just 10 be obliging, he stopped, rave his
name and address and disappeared in a
dense cloud of dust while the policeman
was writing down the number on the back
of his machine.
Conferences at Police Court.
This morning there was racing and chas-
ing about the Police Court. The general
impression was that Sam would be allowed
to forfeit a nominal collateral and that
would be the end OF il. But he showed up
in court and there was an appeal made to
police headquarters to know what to do
with him. Judge Mullowny. 1t Is under
stood. said. unolncially OF course, that is
was a rotten shame or words to that
effect, TO haul Nick up for getting a little
joyous as he was escaping from Washing
ton, or as Nicholas was not there to make
a vicarOus sacrifice OF his chauffeur. But
when the case was put up to the chief of
police, per telephone, Maj. Sylvester or
some of his aids said sternly that Justice
must take her course" or again words to
that effect so the information was made
out by the prosecuting attorney.
Then there were more conferences. 1t
may be that the court had some recolec-
ton of the time when one of the Capitol
officials got himself arrested in the same
way and kept a congressional committee
waiting. There was a bill for increasing
the pay of the Police Court judges pending
at the time and the item got blue pencied
OF course there Is not any bill of that sort
up now, but anyhow the upshot of the
whole matter was that the case was con-
tnued Indefinitely and Luttrell was let off
with congratulations.
What effect this leniency may have on
his future conduct 1t is impossible to say
But It is reported that the Longworths
have already written home to have the
slowest pair OF horses in their stable to
at nm hlf-
from Cuba.
That Alleged serenade.
The story of the charivarI concert at the
Mclean homestead on the night OF the
White House wedding has gradually leaked
out in more or less definite form 1t seems
that Joe Letter, who had been dining at the
Metropolitan Club, and was feeling in
more or less jestfuI mood decided in the
course of the evening that it would be
merry conceit to go out and serenade Rep
resentative Longworth, with whom he
more or less Intimately acquainted
He circulated n general invitation, which
did not meet with any very enthusiastic re-
Spouse, and falling 10 get enough amateurs
to make up band, he went out and bought
a few automobiles and showed hired band
Into them and fitted out the moonlit length
of the Tenleytown road.
There were guards on all the gates where
respectable visitors are In the habit of COM
about appearing respectable. Anyhow he
led his forces around to the barn gate and
thence made cToss-country dash for the
lawn The concert got well under way be-
fore the policemen who were warming
themselves IN the barn heard the racket
Then they dashed out like the chorus in
Tho Pirates" and there was a regular
Donnybrook fair on the lawn for q few
minutes. until they found what sort of
fashionable seance they had broken into.
Then the head cop appealed to Mr.. Holiness
the superintendent. to know what he should
do, and Mr.. Holmes said he would like him
TO do his worst, but did not think he had
better without instructions from higher au-
thorIty.
The chief of the vigilance squad said
that he would take the whole outfit down to
the seventh precinct and lock them up or
duck them In the lily pond whichever Mr.
Holmes preferred.
The matter was finally compromised by
bundling the whole crowd out onto the
road and leaving them there autos and ALL
How and when they got back to Washing
ton does not appear on the record.