The Washington times., 1924-02-15
The Alibi
Artists
"a Skeleton Record Of
Cases Tried BY
Judge Mcmahon.
BY Donald Med Dougal.

YOung-Man-Afraid-Of-EIis Truck.
"A two-ton truck made . right
turn into Seventeenth from 8
street, your honor. at such high
I speed that it ran across Seven
teenth street before It could
straighten out, and took my left
rear fender off.
"The driver parked on the
wrong side, about thirty feet
behind me, jumped out ana ran
around the corner Of r street.
Public phones are scarce in that
neighborhood, and IL was nearly
5 o'clock before i could get q
message to the precinct station.
a He Cinderella.
"The police had been there only
a few minutes when a Ford sedan
stopped at the corner and the
truck driver stepped out all dress
ed up and twirling a cane-quite
a contrast to the sheepskin coat
and golf cap he had taken around
the corner so rapidly half an
hour before.
''He said the truck was his, and
that It had been stolen from in
front of his shop two or three
hours before. The officer told
him he should have notified the
police two or three hours before,
then, and called the wagon.
Meets Noted Club Man
Boob: "I had quit work for the
day, and had about finished
dressing to go out, when I was
notified that the truck had been
stolen from in front Of my shop,
where / left it about q o'clock
that afternoon.
"I went over there in my sedan.
and was trying to think what to
do, when a boy told me that the
machine was over at the corner
of Seventeenth and s, in a col
lison. I drove up there, identi-
fled the truck, and the officer put
me under arrest"
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
'TWho was the boy?''
II don't know. He doesn't live
in that neighborhood."
Pretty smart boy to locate the
owner Of an abandoned machine
SO quickly. You should have
brought him in here as a witness.
You must have been right busy to
let your truck be stolen from in
front Of your shop and not know
it until some one told you after
you got home"
''I wasn't working at the shop
II was out in Virginia."
What time did you get back
from Virginia?"
about half past three"
Closing In.
'That gave you an hour and a
half before dark to notice your
truck was gone."
II didn't go to the shop at all.
I went right home and changed
my clothes"
do you quit work every day
at half past three?"
Ibid say half past three?
meant half past four"
Treed.
You're a pretty rapid dresser
to change from your work clothes
and get up to Seventeenth and
streets from your shop in less
than half an hour"
"My shop isn't very far from
there"
Where is your shop?"
''On Seventeenth between r
and S."
Colliding, $40: failing to report.
$40.
The Accident Zone.
"a Ford touring car and a light
delivery truck were racing ON
Wisconsin avenue about o'clock
yesterday afternoon, your honor,
at what looked like a pretty stiff
gait. I followed them from Wood.
ley road at thirty miles an hour.
'"The avenue was too free Of
traffic to stand much chance Of
getting more than one Of them
until we reached Pierce Mill road,
where they were held up"
Steamboat Bill, Chauffeur.
Boob: II wasn't racing, and
don't know anything about the
other car. My machine hasn't
any speedometer, and I don't
know how fast I was going"
1.-THE officer got you both at
the same timer"
Eyes SIR"
"You must have been going
neck and neck. $25 or 10 days"
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