The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
BETS ON PoNY,
THEN BEATS BooKIE.

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-. All the ponies are not at the race
track or in winter quarters
Neither are all the oookmekers
at Palm Beach or Tia Juana or Jau-
,rez plying their trades.
Somewhere in South Washing
ton there Is something equally as
exciting and Improbable Tor xne
small bettor. to wit. Preston His-
gins
According to his story. he bet
s2.so on a pony named Sleepy
Baby" giving the money to Drum
mond Taylor, alleged "bookie.
Despite the pony's name IL won,
said Preston, but the "bookie" dis
appeaered- Several days later he
discovered Taylor and demanded
his winnings.
"Ah doan know you. man." said
TAYLOR. sAh nebber heerd OF you
nor q ,hoss named Sleepy Baby
iafore either"
20 Being a man Of few words Pres
ton got into action and Taylor al
most got into the hospital. he
was badly beaten up, so he said.
Instead of being out only $7.5o,
his supposed winnings, Preston is
out SO more, as he paid fine
amounting to that.
WASN'T GIVEN CHANCE
TO GET DRINK, HE SAYS
without any previous warning
Hubert McLauren developed an un-
sovernable thirst He hunted up a
bootiegger and bought something
calculated to burn q hole in asphalt
As he was winding his way home,
he bumped into a person whom he
thought to be a cop in disguise. He
broke into a run and in the run he
broke the bottle It fell with a
crash to the sidewalk.
- A sure enough cop came along
and took charge of him. It was out
OF the question to bring the broken
glass and the spilled liquor into
court as evidence and 50 a charge
Of drunkenness was placed against
Hubert.
He denied At. Of course. He ad-
mitted intending to parboil his in
nards with the stuff. but didn't have
an opportunity.
- But the cop insisted that the man
had too much Of something else be-
Tore meeting the bootlegger. He
arrived at this conclusion. he said.
from the way Hubert acted when
arrested
It was evident when the man left
the court room that he believed
himself very much imposed upon,
that the court had fined him SO
. for getting drunk before he actually
did.
Hooked PALS SUIT
10 REDEEM HIS OWN.
ar Once there were two suits of
One belonged to Peter Glass and
the other to Russell Chambers, both
sx-soldiers, who worked at the
same place.
Peter hooked his suit. Chambers
kept his until the time came for
Peter to 60 to . dance. Then Peter
borrowed his pals suit, but found
hooked Chambers suit to get his
own suit out of hook.
Chambers was real patient with
Peter about the return of the suit
He asked him about IL several
times. but got no answer.
Peter got tired Of having Cham
bers worry him about the clothes
and one day In an exasperated tone
PT0AnA3ca Inc man - OF
hst" II he did not let him alone.
- Chambers then had him arrested
for larceny after trust Detective
H K Wilson got busy. A friend
-of Petsr's came to the rescue and
rescued the suit from the hockshop.
Judge McMahon said IL was q
mighty poor wayNto treat . friend
who had been good to him
Since Chambers suit has been re-
covered and Peters suit has gone
back In hock. the court decided not
to, send Peter to Jail but took his
pe-sonai bonds not to repeat the
ofrense-
BoY WEARS RINGS,
OWNER IDENTIFIES THEM.
A little boy. with I'VE rings on
his fingers. each of them slipping
and sliding around. came to the
house of Josephine Mcdonald.
: AFTER considerable coaxing Jose
phine managed to persuade the boy
20 tell where he got them She rec
ognized the rings and her curiosity
was aroused. ~
shortly after this Bernadine
Jackson was arrested II turned
out that the boy was Bernadine's
stepson and had taken the rings
from her bureau drawer to play
With.
= The woman swore that she 'founo
the rings In q picture theater lying
On the seat Of . chair. Josephine
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