The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-19
THEY ALL TRY BUT NONE TALKS
 THE FINNISH
Queer Prisoners Wink and Blink as All Tongues But Right One Are Tried
 on Them
Court Holds Men For Train Riding and Sends Out Alarm For Interpreter Who Knows Finnish

If you happen to run across a Fin lander in the course of the evening and you want to be of real service to humanity send your Finland friend to the city court tomorrow morning to help the officials of that tribunal solve the mysteries of a couple of pris- oners who puzzled them this fore noon
 The men marched into the city court this morning along with half a dozen other prisoners led in from the cell rooms, but they at once attracted the attention of spectators by their pecu- liar appearance. One of them. con- siderably younger than the other, was remarkable for the length of his hair, which fell down over his cheeks when he neglected to keep 1t brushed back. Both men were shabbily clad and looked much the worse for lack of soap and water. It didn't require a wild stretch of the imagination to picture them devourtng a square meal with avidity
 Clerk John Smith struggled with the names turned in by the police to identify the prisoners, and at length spelled them out to the court They were Oeva Korsmann and Alexia Keto. When he called the names several times the prisoners apparently realized their names were in question and arose.
 They looked blankly at Prosecutor Redden. Judge Foster suggested an interpreter. Luke Petruschell.' who speaks Italian and other Latin tongues, was called upon
 He asked them if they spoke Ital- ian, then tried French, and applied a little continent of Spanish, but the men were at loss to understand
 Leopold Cohm who speaks Hungar- ian and other allied tongues tried sev- eral on them, but this polyglot mix ture failed to elicit any intelligible response
 But the court officials held their trump card in reserve. There is an interpreter, August Brill, upon whom they felt sure they could depend. The city court attaches tell story of Brill that once he was dozing during the progress of court A Chinaman was on trial and he awoke during the Hull of activities while an interpreter was being sought. Brill blinked, arose hurriedly with a dim realization that his services were needed, and raising his right hand to receive the oath, broke into the smile that always accompanies the vision of a check for S1.50 that goes to him for services in each individual case.
 Can you talk to this man?' he was asked, and Brill, not looking up, said he thought he could. When he look ed a second time and saw the stolid Celestial on the stand he sank back into his chair, in confusion.
 It was upon August Brill that the court officials banked today. They asked August to tackle the prisoners. He piled them with question after question, trying language after lan- guage, for Brill, in the vernacular of the street is SOME interpreter But even he failed, and had to confess his utter inability to make out.
 Prosecutor Redden had Court Off, cer Finnegan pilot the younger man to the stand. He jabbered little broken English, said something about three minutes and Gloucester, Mass, but couldn't make any progress. The witness made it understood that he and his friend were Finnish.
 Judge Foster then ordered the pair held until tomorrow and meanwhile an interpreter will be sought
 Both men were arrested by Railroad Policeman O'Brien in the freight yards, charged with attaching them selves to freight cars without permis- sion The police, who must have succeeded better than the court off cials in conversing with the prisoners, gathered for their police records this description of the prisoners:
 Oeva Kofsmann, 19, farmer, Finnish and Alexia Keto, 29, shoemaker, Fin nish. Both are accounted as living in New York city, and Keto, according to the police. has been in this country five months. and the other man over a year. It is apparent that Korsmann hasn't had a haircut since his emigra-