The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-31

With The
EAlibi Artists
| A Cross Section of the
Daily Grind in Judge
SchuIdt's Court
Read EN- and Weep.
BY DONALD MacDOUGAL
BY DONALD MacDOU
Two Sides.

LET the party collided with
the stand
1.-THE party collided with issa
very small child, your honor, and
he can't talk very we'll"
How old is her
Nearly five years, your
honor.
Bring him up here and let's
look at him"
A six.and-a-half foot officer
leads the party collided with up
to the bar. In his attempt to
leave the party's feet on the
floor, the officer is bent nearly
double. while the party stretches
up a doll-like arm to clutch the
officers fore-finger, which makes
quite a handful for him. He re-
minds US of a skye terrier about
to perform some kind of a trick.
The court INTERNATIONALLY; rs
that the party cOllided with?"
That's him, your honor. I
picked him up from between the
wheels. He was unconscious"
The Way They Tell It.
Witness: II was standing on
the northeast corner of Sixth and
K, when this little boy ran past
me across Sixth street. He had
nearly reached the other side-he
was about ten feet from the curb
when the defendant, going
south on Sixth street, ran him
down. He made no attempt to
avoid the child, and did not sound
his horn. saw the boy lying
on the ground, quiet, and thought
he was dead. ran over there to
pick him up, but a policeman
beat me to it.
THE defendant continued on
about a car length and then ran
up on the sidewalk"
Ran up on the sidewalk"
Yes sir. He made no effort to
dodge the boy until after he had
passed him"
This happened at the corner Of
Sixth and K streets?"
Eyes SIR
- Denatured Veracity.
How could the defendant run up
on the sidewalk, then? If he went
a car length after the collision, and
then turned, that would bring him
into K street, wouldn't it?' -.
well, it was little above the
corner"
How for above the corner"
Il judge about fifty feet"
Your testimony is misleading.
Step back"
On the Job.
Defendant: II was running south
on Sixth street about twelve miles
an hour little after two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, your honor.
1t was raining pretty hard and T
didn't dare go very fast. A short
distance above K street the little
boy, running diagonally across the
street, jumped In front of nv car
| ran onto the sidewalk and kept
him. clear of the wheels, and u
would have avoided him altogether
IT the streets hadn't been SO slip
perry. but: / skidded with the sudden
turn and the rear part of the
machine caught him.
= Helping Mamma
When the officer picked him up,
the little fellow, unconscious and
bleeding, was clutching a store
book in his hand, and l guess he
was headed@for the grocery on the
corner. He was running the way
people do when they want to get
out Of the rain. / didn't see him
in time because he was running
catter-cornered.
There was a car parked at the
curb a little ahead of me, and I
had to run on the sidewalk to avoid
it. Luckily there was no one on
the sidewalk then"
The court: "These cases of chill
dren in the street are hard ones
to decide. Youngsters should be
taught to cross only at intersec-
tions. In this case the court
does not believe the front wheels
hit the child. 1t looks as though
the defendant had done every
thing possible to avoid the col
lision. 1t is difficult to explain
why he ran up on the sidewalk
II he was not trying to dodge the
boy, and it is equally difficult to
explain why he didn't run
across the sidewalk into some.
ones front yard If he was going
at an excessive rate of speed.