The Washington herald., 1917-10-17
GOOD MORNING
JUDGE
Pete.s Light Went Out.
BY RUDOLPH PERKINS.

By RUDOLPH PERKINS,
Pete's Light Went Out.
Every time Pete Carter and Mike
Green mot Irish see each other they
make believe they are prize fighting,
Just a friendly sparring match
They have been doing this for a
long time. The other day they were
standing on the. corner. passing I'M
aginary uppercuts and solar plexuses.
A good-looking queen came by.
Right here Pete got a slap ip the
eye and It closed up tight. He was
watching the skirt and forgot his
guard.
Mike saw it all and got in a good
one on Pete. too. This made Pete
very sore. The girl smiled at Mike
when she saw him land on Pete's
eye.
He was a bum sport, this Pete.
He got a warrant for Mike. But isn't
1t reasonable for a fellow by the
name OF Mike. to do something to
live up to 1t?
And to make matters worse Mike
says he had date with the girl.
Pete doesn't stand a show. But. at
that. Mike will be rather financially
embarrassed because he 10 out a lit
tie 3 by IS bill for making Pete
blink.
Some Boy.
Some husbands dearly love their
wives. no matter If they do try to
murder them.
On July IS last. Mary E. Brice,
little the worse for tom-cat gin, got
out her butcher knife and poked 1t
in the side of her husband, Ham
Brice. At the Georgetown Hospital,
DR.. Cannon had to take out a sec
ton of his ribs, and sew up a por-
ton of the lung cavity.
Ham came as near going to see the
coroner as he ever did in his life.
Yet he had no hard feelings against
his little Mary.
OF course the police still held onto
Mary and at the morning session of
the Police Court yesterday she an
swered a charge of assault with a
dangerous weapon.
On the stand Ham refused to say
word against Mary. He still loved
her, he said, and was willing to take
her back and run chances of a repiti-
ton OF the offense.
As 1t happened that the only eye
witness except Mary Is dead, Prose-
cutor Given had nothing else to do
but to dismiss the case for want of
prosecution.
Ham and Mary went home Just as
happy as ever.
And The Watchers Watched.
Monday afternoon Bill Pennyfeld
was watching someone. OF course
it is none of our business who Bill
was watching. 1t was a lady. so
we won't mention her name.
Bill was helping the lady's husband
to watch her, so testimony brought
out. Both had a reason, they said.
The lady roomed at the house where
a sick man lies abed. Friends were
visiting him. Among these was
Charles Provost.
Someone suggested to Charlie that
he get rid of the watchers. Alright.
he would and he did.
Bill got a black eye. We don't
know what become of the husband.
He was in court but where he got
to when Bill had his light put out
we can't guess.
Friend husband said some mean
things about Charlie. We Just can't
print 'en. Charlie got mixed up in
his own defense. He really didn't
tell his lawyer all he should have
told him.
Judge Pugh said he would have to
do something to stop these blackeye
parties and he fined Charlie a $50
bill.
A "CoaP' Deal.
Neale Brown drives coal wagon
and sells the coal by the bushel.
Just for how much is a secret.
A lot of small boys in the neigh
borhood of Neale's customers thought
up quite a smart little trick to play
on the man.
Several of them got UP in the Sec
ond or third stories of the houses
and made noise like a woman ask
ing Neale to bring her a bushel of
coal.
The poor fellow would trudge all
the way upstairs only to find out
that it was only a Joke. This hap
pened several times.
The other day. Clifford Campbell,
one Of the alleged tricksters got a
whipping. 1t was hard to tell who
did it. Cliff suspected Neale.
His father got a warrant for the
coal dealer, but it happened that
most Of the coal dealers seem to be
hooked with Wall Street these days,
and it wasn't possible to get a con-
viction.
Judge Pugh told Cliff that he was
willing to punish the man who whip
ped him IL he would only bring him
in, but from what evidence Cliff had
on Neale it just couldn't be done.