The Washington herald., 1917-09-14
The Milky Way.

rhe Mfiky Way.
Now, Jedge, pleez doan look at me
that away. you knows All neber hit
dat womun. She put dat bump on her
haid her ownsef, en- said All ala N
en- nudder thing. ledge, An beleebs
you think All did Il anyhow. hut
homes ter grashus All didn't. She
made a pass at me, her feets slipned
and she hit her haid on a brick in de
pavement. All wuz comm in de house
en- she said supper wuzunt ready, en-
All said All doan wan no supper. en-
den the fryin' pan Gums after me en-
All misses it. das all"
Louis Carter had done something 10
| Mary. his wife. She had been hit on
the COCO and her feet were bruised.
A milk bottle was used as a weapon
Mary swore that Louis had performed
the operation. but Louis said not. The
court looked at the bottle, then az the
| bump on Mary's head and told Louis
to shell out 10 bucks.
Some Thirst.
Two men held up Frederick Wood
ward at the American University
camp and separated him from $50
Fred saw the men and gave chase,
and followed them all the way in
town. He stopped two policemen near
Four-and-a-half street southwest and
told them his troubles and gave them
description Of the men. Mansfield
and Vaughn, The Flying Squadron, "
knew Immediately who was wanted.
These two men were notorious for
their thirst and could be seen almo st
any time in certain barroom.
Sure enough, they saw Charles
Montgomery and Bill Miles in the bar
room drinking gin. They Just couldn't
do without ii. Rather than do with
out that drink they would risk getting
caught with the goods. They were
locked up. arraigned in Police Court
and positively identified as the high
waymen. The grand jury will attend
to these gentlemen.
Cold Night; Hat Gone.
1t happened on one Of these cool
nights. At the home OF Leonard Med
ley. it got so chilly he built a fire.
Some friends came in to get warm
They talked about women. scandal
and other things for a while, and
Emory Louis suggested craps. Every
body showed their chairs away from
/ the stove and sat down on the floor.
The game went along quietly for q
! while. Soon Leonard in his despera.
ton TO win some coin, shot one Of the
dice under the stove by accident and
it went down through a crack in the
! floor. Emory got up with yell anc
| demanded 50 cents from Leonard tC
pay for the lost bone. Leonard re-
nesed, saying il was too much
Emory got behind him and, opening
his knife, tried to cut the spinal col
umn out of him. This aggravated
Judge Pugh, who hates to see mar
! get hit from behind and he told Emory
to go down for ninety days.
Naughty Little Clarence.
Policeman Reddington is stationed Al
the Union Station as a special cop
I His job is TO take all drunks by th'
back Of the neck and dump them II
the ash can. provided the can y bis
enough. He noticed a big hunk o.
( flesh stretched out on a bencl
| Wednesday evening and he woke 8
up and ordered it TO sleep on its jal
| elsewhere. Clarence Lane. the man!
name was, was too loaded to know
! what was required Of him.
| Not being able to hear he wouls
naturally have to feel. ReddingtoI
! grabbed him and was about TO re-
move him, when Clarence shocked al
the ladies with his language an'
sought to chastise the policeman
Clarence tried to fib his way out, bu
Judge Pugh had heard those tales be
fore. and informed Clarence evel
though so was a lot Of money TO