Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-09
Only One Subject of Interest
in the Police Court.
FEW CASES TO BE HEARD
His Honor Anxious to Get to The
Stars Score Board.
INNINGS ARE MOSTLY SHORT
Unfortunates Succumb to the Deep
Curves of the. Opposing
Legal Battery.

They we're all talking about base pan
at the Police Court today. and 1t Is a
mighty good thing for the defendants,
perhaps. that there were few cases and
quick action because Judge Mullowny
had to sit in both courts. Judge Aukam
being aboard the Minnehaha on fishing
trip Judge Mullowny wanted to watch
The Star score board and was glad to
have the last run in his court made at
IL am, giving him plenty of time to
get down town to see the Detrofts win
over the Pittsburgs or the other way
about Clerk of the Court Sebring and
United States Attorney Ralph Given were
also released.
| Down in the assistant United States at
torney's Office two colored girls came In
to get q warrant out for Kizzie Some
Body and Wackie Some One Else. They
said that Kizzie had hit them and bitten
| them.
What did kizzie hit you with?' asked
| the gentleman in charge.
with Ty Cobbs bat" roared Attorney
| James O'Shea. who entered the room at
| that moment.
George Hills offense.
One Of the players in today's game
at the fOlCC SOuTI WdS 1COLSC NHl 10
| tothelogiaviris, but as they could not get
his name in the batting list without con
! siderable crowding they called him
| George HILL He is said to have assaulted
| friend with deadly and dangerous
weapon. He did not care for Mr.. Given s
| drop curve and went back to the bench.
| waving examination, and being held UNI
| der $1,000 bond.
| Richard Miller faced the Judge. charged
with carrying a deadly and dangerous
weapon, to wit, revolver.
Il have. little puppy dog. Judge"
| puppy dog out of my house and play
with him. and last night I just snapped
| the revolver at him. just in play. Then
| q woman came to me and said her daugh-
| ter was going to the ball with q gentle
man friend. and, Of course, she being a
| married woman and he being single,
| did not think that was right. So
| found him and told him SO. That's all.
! judge
But, as the policeman, John brennan,
| had received complaint that Miller had
waved the revolver in the single gen.
| tleman's face. the judge fined Miller SIS
and took the gun away from him.
Preston f. Miller was not fooled by the
| curves from the legal battery. He was
charged with running an automobile at
fifteen miles an hour, but a speedometer
with the hand fixed at twelve miles an
hour was the bat with which he was en-
abled to make a home run.
His Honor Relents.
George Mason, colored. stepped to the
plate with two charges of larceny waving
at him. George Kane said he had lost three
bottles of sherry. and Belle Lewis said
she had lost forty-f1ve-dollar watch and
several dollars. Judge Mullowny got the
price of the watch down to $50. Mason
said he got In crap game. lost the
money, drank the wine. and went to sleep
and was bamboozled out of the watch.
The decision in his case was one year.
and after he walked back to the bench it
was changed to sixty days for the sherry
| and six months for all the rest.
Edward Merriam said he was ''the
the officer told of a desperate theft of one
candy box and 81 cents worth of candy.
Edward Merriam acted as if the matter
was joke, and was struck out to the
tune of ninety days.
1t was not Hans Wagner's bat that Hill
| larry Middleton, coiored, claimed to be hit
| with, but something much worse. He
brought a large iron pipe. about six feet
| long. into court and waved it over the
| judge, showing how Dennis Southern had
| used 1t on him. Dennis hired Hillary to
cart some wood, and because Hill airy
would not put enough wood in the wagon
| to suit his employer there was a rumpus.
Some one hit some one. but the Judge
and called the game on account Of dark
| ness, through which the legal eye could
| not pierce. In other words, the case was
dismissed.
Time of game. one hour and thirty min
-utes.