Evening star., 1912-11-14
DOMESTIC WOE TOLD
Troubles Are Aired in the Po-
lice Court.
ROW OVER MANS BODY
Two Other Women Object When
Widow Claims Corpse.
SAD STORY OF PUNCH IN JAW
Result Of Staying Out All Night.
Chickens Taken in Lieu
of Quarter.

From the three women who fought over
dead body in Willow Tree alley to the
husband and wife who battered away at
each other in Foggy Bottom, the picture
Of domestic relations as put forward in
the Police Court today was one that
would have made q humorous Cupid
shake his fat sides with laughter, while
more doleful god Of love would have
buried his little face in Judge Mullow-
ny's shoulder and wept.
The case Of the lover who was spurned
because he could not give his best girl
a quarter, and who retaliated by steal
ing two chickens out of her chicken coop
on request, and who was sentenced to jail,
was but an incident in the long roll of
misdeeds.
No one could blame Maggie Montgom-
cry for going to the house in which her
husband had died to claim his body. Mag
gies husband died In a house, not his
own, in Willow Tree alley and when she
arrived to make her claim she got into
a row with Bette Carter and Lily Con-
roy.
They all told such widely diverging
tales that Judge Pugh couldn't tell
what really had happened. Maggie said
Lily and Bette had done all the
blame on Maggie's head in large, thick
loads. At any rate. there was a ter
rifle rumpus in = the house, bedclothes
We're scattered all over the place, and
the police were called. But for all the
row the judge could not find one wit
ness who told a story sufficient to
make a charge Of disorderly conduct
stick. and SO this case was dismissed. .
Late Hours Cause Trouble.
Up came Mary Butler, with her jaw
SO swollen she looked to have the
mumps. She is portly, anyhow, and
around her battered visage a fine black
lace mantilla was thrown in Spanish
abandon. She pointed at her defendant
husband. John H. Butler:
"Jedge, he punch me-" she said, rolling
her eyes.
Where did he punch your" asked
You mean to tell me yo' dom know
whah he punch me. Look at NAH jaw
Chile. anybody done know he punch me
in de jaw"
"Why?"
'rFo' nuthin'. He stay out all night.
an when All asks him bout it. he jes
punch me-
Then John told his tale:
Yes. yo' honah. l stays out all
Sitting up with sick friend, I sup
poseo" suggested the judge.
Couple Have Words.
NO. sab. Nah friend. amt sick. Me
an her had words, and Ah jes' stays out
all night to get rid o. her talk. Then
when Ah comes home she slaps me, and
All jes' taken de fiat O. NAH han and
pushes her in de face-so," and he illus
trated the movement. "Ah amt punched
her. All jest knocks her down and walks
off. Mebbe she. struck stove. Cause Ah
ain nevahs punched her.
Twenty dollars!
Cora Meekin had the same sort of a
husband. She looked longingly at him
when she arose in the witness box and
said she didn't want to have John Meekin
punished.
He come home and finds me wifi some
comply
a gentleman friend. perhaps said
Judge Mullowny.
'Yassir,' and Cora grinned.
"And now you are sorry and you are
not going to have that gentleman friend
come around any more?"
"Yassir.''
"You hear that, John?" spoke the court
''She isn't going to have any more COM
pany. and you are not going to slap
her.
And the two of them walked out of the
courtroom, arm in arm.
Chickens and a Quarter.
If Arthur Johnson had given Fannie
Anderson a quarter, perhaps he never
would have been enmeshed in the tolls
of the law: at least that was his defense.
Fannie was at the home of Fannie
Akers, when Arthur came to call He
brought some pictures, religious subjects,
he said, and was having a nice time
talking to the two Fannies, until Fannie
Anderson asked him for quarter; at
least he said SO. He said he didn't have
one, and left.
The girls looked out the upper window
and saw Arthur running fast and from
beneath his coat protruded the legs of
Fannie Akers' two chickens. they said
Arthur says it was all trumped up on
him because he had not contributed a
twenty-five-cent piece. Fannie Anderson
denied that Arthur was her beau.
Hes been hangin' round me TO a
long time. jedge, but All amt nevah
given him no encouragement. All amt
nevah considered Ah was goin' wifi him.
He amt nevah appealed to me; and dem
pictures he's talkin' bout dom mount to
much no how. He jes' natchelly took
dem chickens"
Arthur received four months in jail