The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-07
| With the
|Alibi
la Cross Section of the
| Daily Grind in Judge
Macdonald's Court
Read EN- and Weep |
BY DONALD McDOUGAL.
ECONOMY.
Scene I.


Time./ nine O'Clock Monday
morning.
Place, an economy-squeezed
traffic court not far from Wash!
ington, d. c.
Temperature, hot.
The courtroom, about the size
Of "a bonneville Trolley way.
station, is filled to repletion with
traffic desperadoes and witnesses.
You couldn't get another one in
on bet.
Enter fifteen more.
First boob: Gee, it's hot here!
Second boob: Hot You don't
know. anything about hot! just
you wait till you get to--HeHo,
Bill, what you up for?
Third one: Overtime. What's
yours?
I'd just got broke in looking on
the trees for EN-, and they
started painting 'en on the
roadway. Gee, it's close here.
What time is it?
Third: Nine-thirty. Wonder
where they'll paint EN- next?
Enter fifteen more.
Second: You've got to guess
And if you don't guess right you
lose dollar.
Price Going Up.
First: The price goes up after
today. The Judge sail so last
Thursday.
A COP: There was a man run
ming north on Twenty second
street, your honor, for Il left turn
into L street. He had plenty OF
time, only the defendant, running
south on Twenty-second. couldn't
stop on account Of bad brakes
and knocked him onto The side
walk.
tried the defendants brakes.
and his car ran a hundred and
twenty-five feet from twenty
mile start: 49,.
1 missed a few questions in the
new report we have to make out
rtow, and in looking up the
answers I found the defendant
didn't have any permit, and the
one he showed me he'd borrowed.
He said he got it to ease his con-
science.
Defendant: don't drive very
often, your honor, but I always
borrow permit SOS to be on the
safe side.
The court: Are you married?
Nawsuh."
"Is there anyone thatll miss
YOU il YOU go away for 4 while?''
Nah BOSNIAN. All drives TO
Mistuh Mullins
Mr. Mullins has plenty OF
drivers. Have you go. twenty
-dollars?"
"Who? Me? Nawsuh.'
You'll be on the safe side for
the next thirty days. Ten days
straight for no permit ard ten
dollars or ten days each for rcck-
less driving and no brakes"
Enter fifteen more.
Second boob: What time is it?
Third: Half-past ten. I'm going
to beat it.
You can't go, till your case is
tried.
I can't stay, either. 1 parked
an hour and half overtime. and
I've waited here an hour and a
half overtime. That's fair. Be
sides, there's a $500 customer
waiting for me- (He squirms out)
The clerk: John Doe! mo re-
sponse).
The cop: He was here a while
ago. your honor.
The court: Get a warrant for
him.
Scene III.
The corridor. The cop and the
Alibi Man are disclosed talking.
The cop: l can't see through a
lath and plaster wall They send
the police out of the courtroom
when court convADeS.
Alibi Man: What do they 10
that for?
The COD: There isn't room for
ue in there with sll those over
time cases, so they send us out.
If the defendant gets tired of
waiting in that Black Hole of Cal
cutta, and goes out to save hos
pital expenses.
Alibi Man; You've got 10 use
up 81 or IS worth of time get
ting n warrant, and congesting
court again the next day. That
economy
The cop: Alice in Wonderland
economy.