Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

family endure temporary want. or turn
him loose to abuse them, he continued
on being asked how he distinguished be
tween persons charged with similar Of
lenses. Last year in the bitter season
a man who makes splendid wages as 9
carpenter was brought In for beating his
wife. According to the facts they nae
scrapped over lack of money at nome
although he made plenty. 1 advised him
to carry his pay envelope home every
Saturday night and hand it to his wife
Let her be your banker. then you VII
never be broke l advised. She beamed
and he locked satisfied, and they Wenl
But some time after that he was ar
rested for being drunk and dlSorderly
again. / learned he had acted absolutely
as 1 told him, carried his wages nome
handed them over and then asked fol
enough to get shaved and glass OF
beer. This was indignantly refused.
Judge Mullowny said for me to keeI
the money, and I'm going to Keep II,
his wife announced
out and borrow ed the price OF the drink
from his appearance in court next day
I rather think he forgot the shave IN the
excitement-and proceeded with ms &C
quired Dutch courage 10 Slitho III IioIi
of his home and announce what ne
thought of his wife and also or me.
"Another case where l thought Tie
French plan of having the VIE Tor Treas
urer q good one turned OUT as ulsas-
trously The wife agreed to give her nus
hand 81 a week spending money. but wheE
he demanded it all in a lump SATURDAY
night she rebelled.. lncensed at ths Ne
paWned his set of expensive TOOLS 1of S'o'
then went home in d state of jubilant in
toxication, and, waving the money in her
face asked tantaiZingly whether she 'lo
not want to borrow a dollar from MN
There was a grand scrap. and they botn
wound up here.
Yes ii is hard 10 know how 10 act, Tor
the letter of the law admits OF many
readings But i must say these people
have no sullen ill-will in their compost
tons AS many men and women as
have sentenced-some of them heavily
I have never had a threat made against
me- nor has any one ever attempted TO
harm me. And they all know me when
they see me outside. I believe. though.
/ did have one threat I sentenced man
on his previous record to d year in Jail.
He was furious and he passed ME go
ing out of the court he called me a vile
name and shook his fist. / had to Trims
like lightning Other men had received
lighter sentences for the same offense
and I suppose it did seem unfair but
they lacked his bad record. So I paid no
attention to it whatever. 1t had passed
unnoticed. And some time later got the
most abject letter Of apology from him.
He told how wrong he had been and how
thankful that I had not increased his
sentence because of his profanity. 1t be-
gan. Most magnificent judge. and
wouldn't have had the reporters see 1t for
the world.
of icfo iucfica IVA q
of man who agreed to sign the pledge
if released Judge Mullowny let him off
and the brawny. well intenhoned Irish
man proceeded to have one last glorious
fling" Finally he imbibed sufficient
courage and along about midnight rode
uptown to the home of a clergyman who
lis a friend of the judge. This divine had
been called away and his wife was at
would restrain that Irishman. He had
promised to sign the pledge then and
sign it he would.
Next morning Judge Mullowny was
called on the telephone by very irate
man Of the CLOTH
fellow to my house?' he demanded.
why" the judge replied. you are sc
interested in prohibition work rather
''Oh, that part was all right. But the
man came here late last night. drunk as
an idiot, scared my wife half to death
lowry told him not to let the night pass
without signing the pledge
Il had an awful time squaring myself
with that family" said Mulowny.
He has had particularly wide expert
ence in dealing with this sort of cases.
and it is worthy of comment that he ad-
mits the day is still far off when he will
find the task of determining what is best
for every miscreant an easy one. AS a
prosecutor for years. and then as police
Judge. he daily discovers that. to quote
him. 1.-The fellow certainly knew what he
was talking about who said. What's one
mans meat is another mans poison