The Washington herald., 1918-05-15

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Jedge, nah wife is always sayin'
dat All shoots craps. How do she
know what All do wen she amt
aroun?''
Il don't know how they know
these things" answered the court
to Pete Baylor. but your wife is
probably a smarter woman than you
think she is
Dat man. Jedge," spoke up Irene,
the Wife. 'se am not half as smaht
as he thinks he is. Jes' as soon as
he gifts a drink under his belt, he
tells all his bizness. OATS how All
finds out what All knows"
When Irene, accused Pete of
throwing his money away in crap
games Sunday morning. he denied
II.
He couldn't see where she knew
anything about it as he hadn't men,
toned 1t.
There was no money in the house
Saturday night, to go to market
with.
! Pete came home, a little under
the weather-and in this condition
he became talkative and gave him
self away. although he didn't re-
membeE it afterwards.
\ He struck his wife in the face
when she repeated her accusation.
She had him arrested and the
court took his last $40 bill away
from him.
what Nextf
About midnight last Saturday night,
Jesse Powers walked into a yokamee
joint, looked around and ran to the
table where sat Bancroft Jackson and
his girl, Rebecca.
| did yo knows 20 has been draft
ed?' he asked jackson excitedly. DE
cops is roundin' eberybody up. Yo
had better go en- report, less they
shoots 20 70 a deserter."
/ This was the first time Jackson
ever heard that he had been drafted
he had received no card or other or
ders-but the vision of the firing
squad worried him and he left with
out excusing himself.
| Jesse sat down beside Rebecca and
finished eating Jackson's yokamee.
The two had a very nice time to-
| gether-while jackson was hustling
to report
Along toward 1 a. m. Jackson rush
ed in out of breath.
| Without q word he jumped on Jesse
and the two rolled all over the place.
Steal nah gal. will you?" sErieked
jackson, as he stuck his foot in
Jesse's eye. Tell me All is drafted,
wen All amt no sech thipg. will yo?"
A cop picked the pair up and lugged
them to the patrol box.
1t wasn't very serious offense, and
the court fined them only S each.
A $50 Car Ride.
The majority of Police Court cases
Of any consequence have. at the bot
tom. a woman or a bottle of whisky,
sometimes both.
This time it Is the bottle. and It
was on an Anacostia car coming into
Washington Monday night about 10
o'clock.
We don't know Just who had the
bottle, but its contents were swal-
lowed. partly by Tom Loeffler and
partly by his friend.
They were both on the car. which
was in charge Of Conductor Kronk.
In some way or other Tom got
foolish with the conductor and with
the passengers.
| When the car reached Canal street
southwest the conductor had to seek
safety in flight. and left his car.
Tom had gotten beyond control. He
and his friend were too much for
| Kronk.
Wen the car reached Ninth street
and Pennsylvania avenue the motor
man turned Tom over to a policeman.
He denied being drunk-but the TO-
liceman corroborated the statement Of
the car crew. >
There is such thing as a man be-
| ing too drunk to know that ne is
drunk.
And in taking this into considera-
ton. the court fined Tom so. or
twenty-five days in Jail.
There Was q Reason.
Sometime, roundabout last Easter.
an empty pop bottle was thrown at
Eliza Curran as she stepped out Of
her house on c street.
! 1t was about dusk, and Eliza
, couldn't see who threw IL. although
she Investigated the best she could.
She was on her way to a party. 3,
which she was to meet Mr.. Jeffer
son.
Mr.. jefferson had a.ked her to meet