The Washington herald., 1917-08-09
dM Good Morning, Judge"
THW Human Interest Stories Of - By
w Police Court Happenings. PERKINS PERKINS
why Hurry, Georxef


George Brown drove his car down
Tenth street the other day like Me-
phistopheles was after him. But no
one was after him. he was just show
ing a friend how fast the car, which
was Of notorious make could run.
Ahead OF him was q heavy army
transport wagon weighing about ten
times as much as his car, but why
should he stop for q little thing like
that.
Wen. the only thing George could
do was to butt the transport out Of
the way. Now when a little thing hits
q big thing something always hap
pens. This time Georges car coliided
with horse and almost put the good
animal out Of commission. This was
the drivers pet horse and he had
George arrested. Judge Pugh SYM
pathized with the driver and the horse
and fined George SIS.
Red Ripe Tomatoes.
'Jedje, he tooken a tomato often a
truck All was wheelin' in the market
and then he slammed me in nah law"
This Is what Dave Reed told Judge
Pugh yesterday morning when George
Williams took the stand charged with
assaulting Dave. Dave Is bad enough
on as it is being pretty well crippled
up and when George landed on him
he was as helpless as Belgian with
ten Germans on him.
The court tried to tell George that
1t was not the proper way to treat
an old crippled man, especially over
anything so small as tomato. It is
true that George saw red" when he
hit Dave. but the court thought that
a tomato Is such a small red thing
to get, mad about that It fined George
$40. y
Why Boys Leave Home.
Robert Wade and Hugh Frazer have
been friends ever since either knew
what friend was. They have had
little spats. fights. brick-throwing ar
guments, but always, in the end,
patched UP their differences. Robert
was married last June and he still
considered Hugh a friend. So did
his wife. Hugh would come around
for dinner on Sunday and when Rob-
ert wasn't looking he would chuck
the wife under the chin. WHEY used
to giggle and grin. but didn't object.
That was all right until Robert
caught on. Last Sunday Hugh for
got himself and wifey did too, as
she sat on his lap and as Robert
came In he saw it all. Hugh be-
came tongue-tied all of a sudden and
couldn't explain. But what did Rob-
mt want with an explanation when
he saw 1t with his own eyes? He
just slapped Hugh in the jaw and
sent him reeling up against the wall
and bruised him something fierce.
Hugh to ease his feelings had Rob-
ert arrested and the court settled 1t
all by fining Robert so.
Some Car Fare-e15.
John Lloyd got on a street car Tues
day night and he wanted to 60 any
where the car cared to take him. But
before this he had visited a friend
who wore a white coat and apron and
stood In front of a long row of
tumblers and glasses. He rode a couple
Of squares and thought 1t would be
just as well not to pay any fare as
to pay It. Now, the car company
has to have some sort of revenue
and 1t asked John for his fare.
John said the weather was fair" by
way Of diversion. but the conductor
said he needed the money. John
thought otherwise and said lots of
mean things to the conductor that he
wouldn't have said If he had thought
twice. For this little prank cost him
fifteen bones.