The Washington herald., 1917-08-10
eh "Good Morning, Judge
TNN Human Interest Stories of .,,no, By
NJ Police Court Happenings. PERKINS PERKINS
By
RUDOLPH
PERKINS

the rescue. When she recovered she
got a warrant for Cora The court
found that there were two sides to
the case and Cora was fined s. and
warned not to fool with the frying
pan again
aToot, Toot,, Good-by.
Jennie Hamper has a beau who
works on one of the river boats. At
the end of every run he used to
visit her and bring her something.
For the past two weeks he hasn't
showed up and Jennie was begin
ming to get worried. Just like the
regular sailor boys her beau Joseph,
had a sweetheart in every port.
Nearest was dearest with Joe, just
as is the case with many other
Joeies.
Way down the river somewhere
was girl. as pure as the lilies, and
as innocent as a rabbit. Joseph fell
in love with her at first sight and
he forgot all about Jennie. Last
Monday Joseph was walking down
NJ street southwest, with a bundle
under his arm which contained
Muller and Jennie got curious
Joseph told her that It was none of
her business. He didn't use those
words. but that was what he meant.
Jennie called a brick to the rescue
and 1t hit. Now Jealous Jennie is
out ten spot.
He's I'm Virginia Yet.
Who would ever think Of leaving
the green fields of Virginia to go
to a hot place like occoquan. Dick
Burdick did and he will be sorry
ever afterward. He had plenty to
eat. plenty to drink (spring water),
and place to lay his weary head
at night and occasionally pay en-
velope while in Virginia.
1t got to be monotonous to Dick
and he thought the girls were all
SO plain and unsophisticated. The
girls in Washington were some
punkins" Dick was told. and he came
to town on side door Pullman.
He loafed around, shot a little crap,
drank too much booze, didn't get
enough to eat and got in every
body's way. He wouldn't work so
the court had to intern him for sixty
days at OccoQuan for being a tramp.
Such Lovely Words.
Wednesday night at about IL O'Clock
| NaLEOi ocrEl~ was IN henry Park
with another man sitting on a bench.
At that hour Of the night people in
that neighborhood want to sleep and
make up for the wear and tear of the
previous day. These two men did not
look at things that way.
Policeman Barteman Is a man whose
job Is to see that the atmosphere OF
the park Is not polluted with cuss
| words and to see that people sitting in
the park behave themselves. Carrol
must have had a bad dream because
he rose all of sudden and what he
/ didn't say would fill a very small
book Folks around there thought
someone had set OF a package OF
i fireworks because they could almost
smell the sulphur In the air, from,
| Carols language. The court though,
1t so bad that Carol was fined $40.
No Wonder Grub's High.
| Out near Brookland nearly everyone
has garden. For the last two months
1t has bee , hard job to keep a GER
tain stray horse from trampiing down
everything and spelling work that
cannot be replaced this year. The
horse belonged to Ed Evans and II
was being kept In the woods tied
with sash cord. The cord broke and
the horse played havoc with surround
ing garde-
The owners of t.ese gardens rot
riled and went after Evans. Several
times they did thus and finally a. .