The Washington times., 1924-01-24
The Abb
Artists
A Skeleton Record Of
Cases Tried BY
Judge Schuldt /.
BY Donald McElov0rI.
BY Donald Med ugGl-
The Righteous Suffer.

from church last Sunday night,
your honor. We live Just the
other side of the Maryland line,
and had passed about four blocks
beyond Thirty-elghth street on
Suitland road when we saw two
cars coming =. toward us at q
rather stiff clip
Counsel: What do you call a
stiff clip?'H
Stampeding ROad-HOgs.
"Oh. for these people, about
thirty miles an hour The two
cars appeared to be racing, and
not caring much about anything.
except who was going to win. I
ran over to the side of the road
as far as / could get, so both
right wheels were in the gutter.
II didn't want to take any
chances with an outfit of that
sort, and gave them all the room
there was. They required more,
and the defendant took off my
left front wheel. running board,
tenders and door. -
1--WE ran catter-cornered across
the road and stopped. I jumped
out at once and saw the @tail
lights of car swinging arDund
Thirty-eighth street, four blocks
away-which gives an idea of the
speed they were making.
Twixt Boob and Bank.
II thought the car that hit me
had got out of sight, too, until
heard a baby crying and a man
yelling for help at the bottom of
ten-fOot bank. which / had just
escaped running over when /
pulled out for the wild men.
IT went down there and found
baby raising a rumpus, a man
trying to start the car and a
woman trying to stop the baby.
asked IL anyone was hurt, and
the man said no one but his
wife"
A Daring Prophecy.
The court. Anything serious?"
''She struck her chin on the
steering wheel and nearly bit her
tongue off. The doctor said
later she wouldn't be able to use
it for six weeks"
Married Men Interested
The clerk: Order in court"
Boob: II was running toward
the city and there was car
alongside me that wouldn't give
me the road. Then I heard a
crash, jounced over a two-foot
terrace. and stopped at the hot
tom of a ten.foot bank. My EAR
didn't upset, and that shows /
wasn't going fast. I've been driv-
ing a taxi for seven years and
never have been in trouble be-
fore"
And q Lawsuit.
You're in pretty deep now, 1t
must have been a right fast clip
you were going, to tear the side
of a car off, run twenty feet and
jounce over a two.foot terrace.
All the witnesses testify that the
other car was as near the right
permitted. which gives min, = a
clean bill Of health. $25." vs.
Waiting at the Bank.
He parked a Star sedan on
Pennsylvania avenue, between
Fifteenth street and Madison place
at 1870, your honor, and at 2:3O
he was still there. That's In the
congested district, where parking
over thirty minutes is against
regulations.
1 asked him for his registration
card, and he couldn't produce it,"
The court: That's the card Is
sued with the 1924 tags, that must
be kept in the car at all times?"
Eyes, your honor. He said a
lady had it,"
All Out FO' De SecOn' Flo.
Boob: II was teaching a lady
to drive, your honor, and she
went into store nearby TO
match a piece of goods. She said
she'd be back in ten minutes. Be-
fore she left she looked through
her handbag for the registration
card. She pulled out lip sticks,
handkerchief, chewing gum, pow
der puffs, door keys, dress goods.
letters, headache powders. hair
pins, Christmas tree ornaments
-
what"
FlOOrwalker Wanted.
Maybe they were hat orna.
ments-I don't know much about
such things. She said she was