The Washington times., 1924-01-07
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THHFFIC COURT
IN IS SECTION
Ke01 and Worry
Beingle ton Record Of
led III Judge
Tribunal
By McDOUGAL.
By y McDOUGAL.
Ito Nine.

-" p' Pennsylvania
avenue a yesterday morn
lhs, your The Traffic was
very heat that time Mo.
tOr1sts ana ans were hurry
ing to til rnment offices
ana II had TO keep the
crowd from tied nm in a
knot. Th4ot;ced the. de-
LenuanC IN ord sedan all
mixed up Studebaker in
the center thorouphfares.
A sergeant las working on
the corner me got them
stralgntenedk Id signaled the
deLenuant tied.
Tim Tin.
AS he camkr to me I got
a good look license num-
Der ana dlrech to the curb.
IT was a ~ number, and
my lnstructlVre to arrest
the driver OF vehicle. He
drew into thes hut when he
saw me conf yard him he
stepped on tho nd I stepped
on the runn1nld of a Ford
coupe and toldtiver to over
take that sedai I'd tell him
about il later. dn't ask any
questions, but her the gas
and we never further than
40 feet behind tlsway. That
coupe man sure go-getter.
A Gown Clerk.
Go-getter: Is crossing
Jackson place ab:45 yester.
day in a Ford CD
The Court: &c" your &C.
cupation?"
I'm q senior h the In.
terstate CommerH ommission.
We were held INV minutes
by a Ford sedan had got
tangled up with Itudebaker.
They got traightSbut and I
had just about re- the cen
ter of Jackson when /
saw the traffic Of wave the
sedan to the curb len some
thing heavy landedrny right
hand running boar the OF.
ficer yelled through window
Catch that sedan there
II didn't know it was
all about. but thaan was
running away, all and
felt it my duty both either
and as a motorist, -operatt
with the police. so l III loose
/ felt a little shaky we an
preached Seventeentheet be
cause there were a u pedes
TRANS crossing the Az there
and 1 knew that sdaof tn,
employees In the neigtng OF
fees aren't as pry as y wer
thirty or forty years., an,
that's rather a geskornel
anyhow.
"The fugitive went thh tn
crowd Of pedestrians an r,icle
without caring very muEhetl
err he got blood on his 4 rs L
not, apparently, and I howe
through the hole he e :
twenty-five miles an hou THE
he opened up to thirty nd
went five better, trying Ihea
him into the curb.
Traffic Fox Hunt
But I had to drop bach he
we reached Eighteenth stl
didn't have the nerve to
The cross walks on botfAd
were crowded with entv
hurrying to their desks
Interstate Commerce Comm,
and Hurley Wright buildingt
not looking for any THIRTY
an hour proposition in tn;
cality.
after we passed Ninett
street and the Department
Commerce building I made u
lost time and got abreast o.
runaway. but he lodged
Twentieth street. and then ar
into / street. scraping the
curb of cal h street in the pr
Just before we reached Ninet,
and / streets we got in fro
him, 80 that he had to hi
machine. or a car parked OF
left side, or stop. He stopI
Which Poor Fellow?
"The officer jumped off
runningboard while was CO
TO a stop, and I glanced
and saw the sedan backing
] street at a pretty lively
! continued to 10th street
tending 10 turn around, VIII
heard a pistol shot. A mo
aftsFward heard another,
! ran back across goth street
found the defendant sittiny
the rbHHingtoard OF his mac
blood streaming down his
and a Lady dabbing a handker
against Il wound In his fore
spd faHffnuFtng, Poor fellow,
fellow ! couldn't help wo
ing what she'd have murmuI
she'd been crossing the Az
at 18th street about the tin.
was doing 80 miles an hour
there"
The Cops Job.
The cop: "As jumped of
e6Bps, the defendant tried to
out 0f the pocket he was in,
smashed the rear wheel
Maxwell car parked n little I,
fshr OF him. He kept RICH
through the Maxwell and los
across goth street. I ran
him and yelled 'Haltv thre
four times. When l saw he I
intend to stop l pulled my
ana punctured his rear tire
stopped then and I had got "
about thirty feet of him VIII
passerby screamed shoot
officer, he's pulling a gum ]
near enough by that time {,
that he was reaching towar,
hin pocket. I've been on
police force thirteen years
I've noticed on several occa,
that a movement of that SC
often followed by fatal result
omeone-----"
Defense counsel: "Couldn'
have been reaching for the |
lever?"