The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
The Alibi'
Artists
A Skeleton Record Of
Cases Tried By
Judge SchuIdt.
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-By Donald NJ ~ OGIaal
a LittIe Practlce.

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# generally go to work In d
Ford. coupe. your honor, but yes.
terday took a brand new Chal.
mers sedan. my brother.in-law
from Chicago was visiting me
and I wanted to show him a lit
tie style.
Steam ROllered.
We parked near my office at
Sixteenth and 4, where we looken
over some papers and then went
to lunch. | was going to take
him down to the Willard, and had
just stepped on the running board
when he yelled Look out and I
stepped off again in hurry
while a five.ton truck wabbled
from the center OF Sixteenth
street and made my sedan look
like an oil lawyers presidential
boom after a two-days' session
with the Public Lands Committee.
COngested Road.
THE driver put on little more
gas and started for Palm Beach
at q clip that would bring him
there in about twelve hours IL
he didn't have to make any de-
tours.
THE man in the car next to
mine was going that way and we
went with him. The truck made
a right turn into X street with
out slowing up and that brought
him over on the left side, where a
teh-day-old Packard roadster was
parked.
Strike Tub!
THE defendant scattered it
pretty evenly along the road as
far as Seventeenth street, where
the struck stopped. We saw a
black streak, like a very large
electric light wire, that stretched
from the drivers seat to some.
where in Georgetown, hut it was
gone before we reached the
corner"
Business Moving Up Town.
The Cop: II was just going on
duty yesterday at IL O'Clock, your
honor, when a man came in the
station and said a five-ton truck
had decimated his Packard road
ster at Sixteenth and K, The
deskman had just finished re-
cording the case when another
man came in, and said five-ton
truck had misused Chalmers
sedan at Sixteenth and L. The
deskman was plotting that entry
when another man came in ana
reported a five-ton truck stolen at
Sixteenth and NJ.
81 stuck around a while to see
IL there was anything doing at
Sixteenth and N before starting
out after the defendant The only
description we had of him was his
age and complexion.
A Dark Secret.
Some boys told me man had
crawled in the cellar window Of
a house over in Georgetown. ]
went into the cellar about
o'clock this morning and poked
around with my stick. There was
a dark shadow in one corner Of
the coal bin, and my stick swung
against 1t and the defendant said
'Ouchr. That's how / found him.
Knows More Now:
Boob: "I'm only eighteen years
old. your honor, and didn't know
any better. I asked a man for a
job and he said Come out on the
truck with me-, I've got a lot of
deliveries to make At Sixteenth
and M he went into a house with
a parcel and was gone quite a
long time. thought that was a
good chance to get a little practice
driving an auto. didn't think /
ought to drive regularly until I
knew more about it,"
Bricks without Wages.
The Court: "You should have
had a little practice taking out a
permit first. The best we can do
now is to give you little
practice making bricks down at
Occoquan, unless you've got $70."
Dumping, $40; leaving too soon,
$50; no permit, SO.