Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-24
FOR MORE
BROTHERLY LOVE
NEIGHB0RS TAKE STRIFE TO
COURT
Attorney TyrreIl's EIoquence Gets His
Client Discharged, and Disturb
ing Peace of Watts Case
Is Dismissed

Attorney Frank G. Tyrrells exper
ience as a minister in st. Louis not 81
many years ago yesterday won him
difficult case before Justice Stephens Of
the township court when in defending
a woman of Watts charged with be-
ing a disturber of public peace he man.
aged to explain the difficulty in such
flowing language as to gain the recog-
milton and support of the court.
Attorney Tyrrell used to be one of
the most noted of st. Louis ministers.
A book published by him not many
wears ago in which through his knowl-
edge Of human nature from his church
work and his acute understanding OF
law he managed to score the eastern
divorce conditions, won him an un-
usual amount of fame.
Yesterday the knowledge of human
nature again stood him in good stead
ga little forbearance in this case,
your honor, little more of sisterly or
neighborly love, just a little more OF
the milk of human kindness in this
case and these people will not have any
more trouble among themselves"
Rather a remarkable sentence for an
attorney to utter and one that smacked
strongly Of Tyrrelrs old pulpit days
and the court did not take long to ap-
preciate it.
judge Dismisses Case
'"That was the way felt about the
case" said Justice Stephens, "but l
could not have said it as beautifully
as you have. 1 shall dismiss this
charge against the defendant"
incidentally the case was one of the
petty warfares of Watts. Watts has
figured so prominently in the courts OF
late as a place where personal strife is
a matter of everyday occurrence that
officers are ever ready TO make d uasl
for the little suburb
This time it was Mrs. Annie Nancy,
who, like the "Namgay Doolay" OF
Kipling's creation, permits no one to
rest in the section wherein she lives.
This trouble broke last Monday. Mrs.
Maner was away from home, while
next door, her neighbor, Mrs. Emma j.
Crane, was at work in her yard. Some
tin cans were thrown over the fence
into Mrs. Maney's yard and some OF
Mrs. Maney's chickens got into the
Cranes barley patch, and when Mrs.
Nancy returned she found one OF her
mother chickens dying with broken
back and one of the baby chickens ex-
piring from the same cause. Yester-
day, in court. with much gesticulatlng
and many explanations, Mrs. Nancy
stated that she had buried the chickens
and that if the court wanted evidence
about the fowls having had their backs
broken, she could secure the chickens
for him. Justice stephens, in view OF
the fact that the chickens had been
dead for p week, declined to issue any
order Cor the exhumation.
NeIahbors Old Enemies
But the Maneys and the Cranes have
been old enemies. Mrs. Crane, an ell
derly woman with snow white halr,
testified to the warfare yesterday. IL
dated back to Mrs. Maney's arrival at
Watts from New Mexico. Mrs. Cranes
husband sold Mrs. Nancy a lot at
Watts. Maybe that was the reason
that there has been trouble ever since
At any rate, trouble has been rife.
A short time after they had been
neighbors, Mrs. Crane testified that
Mrs. Nancy began to annoy her by
letting a Jersey calf, then being
weaned, get back to its mother and
get all the evening milk, beside inter-
feriy With the weaving process. She
further testified that Mrs Nancy had
put the dir mt Hraeds of chickens IN
the same pen, jNJC 1s-sk of me&n-aess
and that I'm that way all the eggs had
been spoiled for setting purposes.
Mrs. Crane testified that on one oc-
caslon she had gone to Mrs. Nancy
and told her she wished she would
mind her own business, whereupon
Mrs. Nancy had fallen upon her with a