The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

horse that it took the best twenty years of his eventful life to raise.
 The little nag was about as large as a mean thought and it's life was sapped out hv pullfng family barouche from morn till dark He would not openly admit that such was the case, but as he once fold a prisoner in his court, "rhe evidence Is all against you," and his friends all say that he has grown years older in a single night.
 He walked into court this morning with ont even a tie or collar and when asked by one of the prisoners why he should so far forget himself to appear in court in such garb, he replied that the whole world was dark and dreary,' and he did not feel as life was worth living After looking over the docket he walked m and the first case on the book wds a charge against one William Allen, whom The Bertillon man described as being coal colored and five feet high.
 Allen was charged with stealing clothes and shoes, and by the time his honor finished with him, he looked as if he had been sent for and couldn't come. The evidence showed that be would put any body's shoes in his trunk, and when it came to clothes he had a stock that he could easily have opened a store on Sec ond avenue and done business without replenishing his stock for one year.
 In passing sentence on him his honor was iolned to grow poetical, and while he said that he did not make any claims to being in Paul Cooks class, still he believed that he could give Alfred Aus tin, the shine poet laureate of Eng land a running start and beat him out. In tones that sounded like those of a broke man calling for a bottle of Bud weiser, he handed Willie the following; It 'talnt no use for you to weep an
 moan,
 Cause It's goin' to be many a month
 before you ever go home.
 It will be seen that the above was very appropriate when it is known that he fined him $170 and costs, or 340 days in jail.
 Not content with that, he fined little Gensey Drayton, good specimen Of brown eoloring, $7.50 and costs for the simple offense of chicken stealing Gen sey stated. in outlining her defense, that she was compelled to eat chicken once a week and when she found out that she did not have the wherewith to go herewith" she simply went out and looked the different chicken yards over ana made selections, just as she would were she buying a bridal dress. She went or to say that she was very much
 
 the fowl, as it did not stack up to suit her at all. She said she always would believe that it was descended from q jay bird and she was sure a good-sized English sparrow would have shown up better after having been fried
 For her show of bad taste she will have to serve four days on the gang. and 1t is 6 cinch she will have no chicken lunch tomorrow.
 Judge Gunn's Court.
 Justice William r. Gum shook his nor phne long enough today to look them over, and what he saw evidently did not please him very much, since he decided to pass em over to some one else.
 Cornella Vaughan, alias Cornelia Puri- fay, trimmed Polly Marshall with a jaw bone, and now poor Polly Is staring grim death in the face These girls are Of the black variety, and the sad little story of "A Love Given That Was Not Returned was the cause of it all.
 Cornella had for some weeks been rid ing at the bottom of the water wagon, and her physician had advised her to eat as much raw meat as possible thinking, of course, that it would help to get her on her feet once more. She went to the butcher shop and asked the butcher for b cents worth of dog meat. He happened to be in rather a bad humor that morn ing, and without looking up, he asked hei If she wanted to take it with her or cal fl there.' This brought on a slight ar gument, Cornelia grabbing the meat anc an old jaw bone at the same time. The butcher was at one time one of the runners at the Olympian games, and it was not much trouble for him to beat his shadow for fifty yards. Cornelia dear was not lc be outdone, and she walked out on the street looking for trouble. The first living thing she met was Polly Ann. Polly is the proud thing, and Cornelia remeni- bered that she had been the cause Of breaking up her house party. Cornella proceeded to get in Sampson's class and Polly went down. She stated to Justice Gum that she was only sorry that there were not more to kill, and one witness stated that she surely nearly killed Polly
 Now the grand jury will have a chance to look at the case, and the bad woman Is still trying to make a $20O bond.
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