The Washington herald., 1918-04-25

Albert Ii Not Afraid.
Tuesday morning about 8 o'clock.
Policeman Duvall saw Albert John
son in the backyard of the house
next to where the officer lived.
He inquired of Albert what he
was doing there. Albert said that
he was looking for a blacksmith
shop to have a chain put on his
knife.
Let me see your knife" asked
Duvall. suspicious about a knife
that needed chain such as a
blacksmith might have.
Albert yanked out a knife that
was only one size smaller than a
bayonet. 1t was almost big enough
to be called a dagger.
! The policeman locked him up
right away and charged him with
having concealed weapons.
| Albert told the court that he used
the knife to shave window panes
with.
This explanation was a new on
the court-and everybody else.
"Ain't you afraid that you might
cut yourself with such a big knife?''
the court asked Albert.
Nav sah." answered the boy.
"Ah amt dat foolish"
| Fifty dollars fine or thirty days
for him.
Oh, You Marie.
| "Jedge. All cum to see nah gal en-
| she wouldn't let me go home. All
axed her to stan aside en- let me
pass outen de doah en- she wouldn't
do it. All jes' had to hit her.
| That must be some girl that Joe
Harris has. According to his story.
parting company must be a terrible
ordeal for her.
Joe was arrested. Marie Hawk
ins. the girl in question. had him
locked up for assault.
He had gone to visit Marie, he
said, and when it came time for
him to go home and hit the hay. he
had to think hard of some way to
get away.
He asked Marie to go get him a
glass of water. While she was gone
he tried to sneak out.
| But the girl was smart She
| barred his way to the front door.
And SO Joe just lit into her and
went home anyhow. He didn't want
to be embarrassed.
d
venge must be and was hers, as 1,
is with every scorned woman soon
er or later.
The court took ten of Joe's hard
earned dollars-but it taught him
a lot of sense.
Teresa's Taking Ways.
For three long years Teresa
1 ChinOtnn haG s~
a laundry.
And all this time. it seems, Teresa
has also been working the laun-
dry.
From time to time different ar.
ticles Of clothing. etc. have beer
missing.
Teresa was caught once in the
| act of carrying some things out and
admonished.
She lately did the same thing all
over again. The laundry boss wa.
convinced that a call-down did hel
no good.
This time Teresa swiped s2(
worth Of laundry. 1t was all found
in her possession and recovered.
These kind of stunts do double
duty when It comes to making
trouble for the laundry.
Not only does the laundry hav,
to pay for what is stolen. but il
| gets a black eye with the customer
whose goods are swiped.
Teresa not only put the laundry
to a lot of trouble. but the publ,
as we'll.
There must be a stop to this kin6
of swiping, the court told Teresa a!
it fined her $5o-or thirty days.
"Al" Goes to His summer Home.
Alfred johnson lives way out il
the country.
Just where he lives does not make
a particle of difference, because il
is too far to walk.
Tuesday afternoon AL pondereS
over the distance between himself
and home until it got on his nerves
He had no carfare-but he ha6
sore feet.
He saw a bicycle standing neal
Franklin Park. The bike belong.
ed to Harrison Bailey.
Without consulting his con,
science or the owner of the bicycle
AL took the wheel and rode away.
He didn't get far before a cor
had him. (Some cops are just nat.
urally sharp.)
"Ah got no excuse. Jedge." said Al
"'cept dat All was tired en- it was
too far in de country for me tc
walk home"
WELL" said the court, after
pondering over the matter for q
minute, 'since you are so tired, sup.
pose you rest up at Occoquan fol
three months
Louis Was No Crook.
The other night a passenger in a
Pullman sleeper had a nightmare and
threw his blanket out of the window,
1t lay alongside the railroad track
near Brookland until late the fol-
lowing afternoon when
Louis Cottouro came ,along and
spotted it. Louis is not an awful
wise man, but he knew a good blan-
ket when he saw one.
He picked 1t up and carried it to
work with him.
Someone saw him with the blanket
and, whoever it was. they must have
figured that Louis swiped it.
The man was arrested and charged
with the larceny of SO blanket.
The court at first refused to he.