The evening world., 1911-05-10
BEACH GOATS
GET JUDGES GOAT
ON WAY TO COURT
Twenty of Them Hold Up
Trolley Car on Which Ma
gistrate VOORHEES, Is Riding.
DAY IN THE COURT
Owners of Twenty-seven, Five
of Them Women, Called
Up on SummonSes.
GOAT DAY IN THE COURT

Bath Reach II used ~ goats. and
many jewellers amid tho claasis fats
thcreitouts are fond Of costs. but when
q, comes TO n pass where a rervy. long
whiskercd goat walks rirht In the house.
climbs up into the nursery and "a = the
baby's shoes. us time something was
lone.
SO Magistrate voorhees, expressed him
self in the Coney Island Police Court
to-day when t~wcnty-scvcn goat owners
wcrc nrralgned before him charged with
permitting their Wild foraglng capri to
roam at large. Five OF tho prisoners
VINO had be,S brought to court On sum
monscs by Policeman Clarence L.
loc.nlo-familiarly known In tho Bath
Beach station as Clarence tho Cop
were women.
LOOMS furnished the Court with n bale
OF complaints that had been lodged
against the defendants goats-one
complaint issuing from the office Of the
Brooklyn RAPID Transit Company and
setting forth that the Bath Beach goats
were 40 thick that they stopped the
trolley cars.
Car Hello Up by Goats.
II can well believe that" responded
Magistrate Voorhees,. only this morn
Ing my car was held up by goats. |
counted twenty out on tae tracks. and
they seemed to he engaged in eating
the connecting bolts from the rails. /
would not be surprised to hear at any
time that they had actually eaten tho
rails. The motorman of my car was
a very kindly man and Mould not run
down the goats. lie got on to shoe
them away. but instead OF shooing half
a dozen big 'b!llies' turned on him
and butted him severely. Then lie got
mad and charged them with his car.
They all got out OF tho way then ana
some OF them stood Mt one side OF the
road and gave us the laugh. They are
the nervtest lot OF goats that exist and
they must be chained up or abolished
That 10 true. Your Honor" spok,
up Policeman Loomls. Il have her.
tho complaint of Mrs. John Benson
who lives a. SiSty-seyenth street ant
New Utrecht avenue about a goat tha
alto her 5ahy's shoes and then cav,
her a battle. This goat. q billy. with
dirty yellow whi'kers. walked righ'
into tne house and wen. upstairs
All Denied Ownership.
Whose goat was that" asked
Ma gis,rste Voorhees,. turning a WRATH
ful eye upon the twenty.seven de-
PENDANTS.
"Not mine" doomed the prisoners In
shrill chorus.
"of course not" retorted His Honor.
sarcasticshy. Il suppose all your
goats are perfect gentlemen and
ladies'"
my goat Is a good goat" broke In
Mrs. Lizzie Foccarlo. He never got
away from the house iii yesterday. |
mad him fenced In with n six-foot fence.
lie saw n CARLOAD OF carrots going by
and jumped the fence. You couldn't
blame a goat for that. could you. Judge?
lie didn't hurt anybody"
Magistrate Voorhees, postponed the ex-
animation OF most OF the defendants I'M
I'll May II.
But don't think any OF you are going
TO get on easy" he said. II would ad-
wise you all to bring at least 81 with
you"
Tony Orlo OF New Utrecht venue and
Sixty-soventh street had HIS case dis.
posed 81 and got on with a 81 hne.
I'm not going to lie about my goat"
said Mr.. Orio through an Interpreter. 81
never tied him UP and | never kept him
IN the par!or or the Kitchen. ! let him
run loose. Al the other neigH bors let
their goats run loose, 80 way not /? It's