The Washington times., 1925-07-14
With the
|AlibiArtists
LA Cross Section of the
\ Daily Grind in Judge
MacdOnald's Court
Read EN- and Weep
By DONALD McDOUGAL.

Some people up around Barry
place were holding a birthday
row. your honor, and neigh.
Dor phoned No. precinct to send
a. squad of men up there to
referee one of the games.
"Another man and went there
In a Packard touring car. We
didn't have any trouble finding
the place.
s'The occasion had developed an
acute case of the eternal triangle
AN acute triange. 1t turned out.
One OF the guests was showing
the company how to make $50
pounds Of hamburger steak out
of a hated rival.
He'd finished about five
pounds when we got there, at
1890 Sunday morning, and the
way his razor was whirring
around, we thought at first he
was a new kind OF electric fan.
1.-THE guest of honor tried to
stop him the way some people
stop electric fans, and got his
fingers cut. But she only slowed
him up a little, and one of his
friends hit her in the mouth
with a Morris chair, and we took
her to the House of Detention, in
tending to stop at the Emergency
Hospital on the way.
I'VE had just turned into
Thomas Circle from Vermont ave-
nue. when the defendant shot out
from the curb with about as
much warning as streak Of
lightning gives.
1--WE pulled the quickest left
turn on record and scared the
motorman of north-bound
Mount Pleasant car SO bad that
he went to church yesterday
morning"
How do you know he went to
church,"
81 met him there. was pref.
ty scared myself. Another four
feet and I'd have met him at
the morgue.
1--WE followed the defendant and
told him to pull into the curb.
He told us to go to hell and
stepped on the gas. We did
that too and kept him in sight
by doing fifty-five miles an hour
for half a dozen blocks.
"Hefwent as far as K street and
turned back up Fifteenth, and
we were about half a block be.
hind him.
He tried to clear a Ford SEDAN
by turning left into NJ street.
He missed M street but hit the
sidewalk on the west side Of
Fifteenth and ripped his left
front wheel off against a tree
growing there.
His car stopped, but he kept
on through the windshield and
ran into an alley. Some of the
windshield stuck in his foor so
he couldn't run very fast. and I
was nearly on him when he
lodged around corner.
Someone yelled Look out! He's
pulling a gun" 1t was too late
for me to stop, and / went
around the corner and grabbed
him.
He had his hand around to.
ward his hip pocket, but he
wasn't drawing a gun. He was
drawing glass"
Boob: l didn't know they were
officers, your honor. There was
a colored woman in the back seat
OF the car, and I thought they
were rowdies. was afraid thew
were going to beat me up, and
that's why I ran away. It was
late at night
What did you think they were
going to beat you up for?"
Because / pulled out from the
curb in front of them without
giving any signal. Some people
get mad when you do that"
Who did the car belong TOP"
THE lady / work for. your
honor. 1t was Cadillac road
ster."
Pretty well smashed up. is it?"
Yes sir. i guess I've lost
my job. And I'm all cut up with
glass. At the hospital they said /
looked like a busy pin-cushion.
when they took my clothes off"
"You could have saved a lot of
trouble by holding your hand out
and looking back before pulling
out from the curb"
Reckless driving $25