The Washington times., 1924-01-05
WITH THE
ALIBI
ARTISTS
THE TRAFFIC COURT
IN CROSS SECTION
Read I'm, and Worry
Being . Skeleton Record 81
Cases Tried in Judge
Schuldt's Tribunal
By DONALD McDOUGAL.
A Little Repair Job.

"A Ford touring car got smashed
at Wisconsin and Massachusetts,
avenues, your honor, and the
owner left 1t there and went to
have some stitches taken in mis-
neck down at the Emergency Hos
pital, and to have some bones
braced up a bit. The ambulance
doctor said the lob wouldn't be
finished until about Memorial Day,
so ! went over to No. Z with the
wreckage.''
Looks ON Bright Side.
IA little beyond Macomb street.
1 saw man stepping off a street
car and about forty feet away the
defendant was spinning along IN q
Dodge touring car four feet or so
from the car tracks and deeply
interested in the sunset glow over
the Virginia hills. I stepped on the
gas SOS to get down there in time
TO pick up the pieces and notify
the Victims family.
Traffic Drill.
He scrooched himself up against
the side of the car until he was
about as fiat as the Jack of Spades,
but. he stuck out enough to wipe
both tenders of the Dodge pretty
clean with his overcoat as the OPP
timistic driver shot by.
THE defendant was still admir-.
ing the sunset when ! arrested
him hundred yards or so further
on"
Every Day In Same Old Way.
THE officer is entirely wrong,
your honor. There was only one
man at the stop point, and he was
waiting to get on. 1 passed the
care before the doors opened.
heard them open after / ran by.
I've been driving every day just
this same way over that road for
five years."
Poor Opportunity.
The court: You'd better drive
some other way before you kill
someone. This street car regula-
ton is one Of the most important
In existence, and this court is
going to see that it's enforced"
But, your honor, there was
only one man there"
You can't expect a crowd in
that thinly settled district. SIS"
Race Suicide.
''It was back in July, your
honor-July /. l noticed the de-
PENDANT Zigzagging from curb to
curb, along Florida avenue near
First street. There's generally q
number of real young children
playing around there, and I
yelled for him to stop, He gave
the car all she'd take and turned
the corner Of North Capitol
street on two wheels. was
right along behind him and when
he got to North Capitol and p
streets a car had stopped there
and a number Of vehicles were
waiting behind it.
The Tender Passion.
Il thought l had him then,
but he swung around past the
left side Of the street car and
missed a lady who was crossing
in front, by a step or two. There
was a girl sitting on the front
seat with the defendant and she
threw her arms around him and
yelped. That interfered with his
driving and he slowed up a little.
Loves Vagaries.
II got alongside and said, Stop
that car and get out He looked
over at me, grinned, said Go to
HE'LL threw the girl out Of the
car and stepped on the gas.
pulled gun on him and he
tried to get away from me by
turning into o street. He missed
the street, but did pretty well on
the sidewalk until his right wheel
hit q tree. He came out of the
car like a sack of beans.
An Indefinite Drink.
We got him to the station and
had to send for a doctor to see
If he was alive. The next day
but one he was able to talk. and
said he got his hooch out in Vir-
ginia somewhere"
"I have pleaded guilty. your
honor, and 1 ask for leniency.
only had one drink"
You must have drunk it out of
a hose. Thirty days straight and
$3.50"