The Washington times., 1924-05-16
.THEAL.IRI,
ARTISTS
A Skeleton Record of
Cases Tried By
Judge Schuldt
By DONALD McDOUGAL.

b AAO NACA0AAAeAAAS Saw w. SAe
the wrong side Of the road in
front Of me. your honor. and
our front wheels locked. Al
month-old baby on the front
seat with him kept on through
the windshield just as the force
OF the srnash knocked my hood
open. The baby dropped. in
there where the spark plugs are
and the hood fell down, shut
ting the baby in there. like q
Venus fly trap plant.
My mother was on the front
seat with me and she broke our
windahield with her face and
landed under the defendants rear
wheel. My eighty ear-old
daughter dropped on the de-
PENDANTS running board and went
to sleep.
II jumped out Of my machine
and the defendant wasn't any
where in sight. said, Where's
that crazy driver?' A lady in
his car yelled. Never mind that
damn man. Where's my baby?'
"A bystander ran up and pulled
my mother out from the wheels
and told another man to 60 call
the ambulance. The baby under
the" hood must have. woke up
about that time. and she began
to scream something awful,
about a foot and q half from the
mans ear.
che said. isn't It strange about
these Ford cars. Each one has
different sQuawk.' I said.
There's a baby in there. Hur-
ry! Hurry! Get 1t out before
it's roasted to DEATH
1.-THE man looked at me kind
of funny and then yelled to the
other one: Hey! Sam! Call the
bug-catcher, too. This lady's
got EN- I pulled up the hood
ana snatched the baby out. blue
in the face, and kicking like
a wildcat. Just then my daughter
rolled off the running board and
grab I'd the mans feet as my
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our ,>.r and fell on top Of her
The man gave one Mortified look
at that impromptu orphan asylum
and beloved, For Gods sake
hurry, Sam. I've got EN-, too.
It's raining kids Sans eyes
bulged like headlights. 'LAwdy,
Lawdy, dat ar Gavin likker done
fotch us foe sho'. Hyah's a
Fode cyah done got a babby.' And
thet last I saw Of Sam he was
rounding the corner toward the
Highway bridge with his feet
touching the ground only about
every third jump"
where did these extraordinary
events take placer"
"On the approach to the High
way bridge, just opposite the
tourist camp entrance, your honor.
was taking my mother and the
two children from our home in
Alexandria to visit my brother in
Washington. We'd just passed
the Highway bridge when I saw
the defendant coming toward me
I about q half block ahead. A man
in front Of the defendant turned
out to pass a parked car, and the
defendant turned out to pass him
at the same time. ran over on
the car tracks to give him room,
and when I was about ten feet
away he turned still more to the
left, and the blood and broken
glass in the center of the car
tracks show where we met"
BOOb's Explanation.
Boob: II ran over to the left
SOS to give the lady room, your
honor. She being a woman, I
thought perhaps she didn't know
how to drive. She was pulling to
her left"
"You didn't have room to pass
between her and the curb?''
"Oh. no, sir. She was close to
the curb. and I saw I'd have to
pull toward the tracks to avoid an
accident"
49,. How Low did did the glass get on the
'"The cars ran there after they
hit, your honor"
you're too late. There's been
enough miracles in this case al.
ready. How much collateral have
you got up?"
Forty dollars, your honor"
Don't Tell Blanton.
"The court believes that the
ends Of justice can be served bet.
ter by giving this money to the
lady to buy bandages for the little
girl, than by turning it into the
Treasury. She was badly cut, the