The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-29
Knocks and
What Policeman Found Is
Mystery; Court Would
Not Listen.
BY ARCH STEINEL

T AWYERS, attorneys, barristerS
l. or in underworldese, mouth
pieces" can pay their grocery bills,
golf club dues or Christmas debts
after the success they MAJ Thurs
day in their daily tourney with Sir
Law and Duke Order in the crimi-
nal municipal courts.
Thursday was Having" day for
he lawless.
Despite the handicap of fooling
with Aunt Emma's cigaret lighter
sent parcel post with DO Not Open
Until Christmas" on it all the way
from OshkoSh--the emisSarieS of
Gladstone seemed to have the
proper legal wave length, thereby
drawing station DISCHARGE"
With greater frequency.
Uncle Search Warrant shook
hands with the judges, disputed pa
trolmen recitals of arrests with
more than the customary affabil-
ity. For Unc' was in fine fettle. He
decried his abuse, misuse, disuSe, IN
til it was questionable whether a
dog catcher had the right to stick
his hand in canine kennel to pull
out hound with the rabies-unless
he first sought Uncle's signature be-
fore being legally bitten.
Il
TN the royal tomes-Not tombs,
Il Beatrice-of the citys ordinances
is law forbidding more than three
persons to ride in the front seat of
motor car
With flappers no longer wearing
garters the ordinance has become
obsolete.
Unaware that it is just a little
decorative phrase, city motorcycle
patrolmen have been arresting auto
drivers-but no more-for you can
pack an orphanage in your front
seat now if you have the orphanage.
For Arthur Dinsmore, attorney,
obtained the release of his client,
Nicholas Hatfield, 10, of 1902 Fall
Greek boulevard, when he cited a
state statute to Joseph B. Markey,
judge pro TEN, which distinctly
said the city was "all wet" when it
attempted to control the use of an
automobile. Hatfield admitted his
auto looked like a "rush-hour" tram
but-he went to Butler-and you
know how that is?
A TRADE Of jobs in the law-book
IA relationship of landlord and
tenant" almost resulted in Nick
MiSsh, % North New Jersey street,
not being missed by a butcher-knife
in the hands of Harry TippS, %, his
landlord.
TippS. according to MisShs teSti
mony, took up the study of his trade
-bdtchering. MiSSh testified that
Tipps, a stone-worker, had decided
that he wouldn't miss Missh if he
vacated the room he, TippS, had
been renting him. Missh refused to
leave. TippS. the Stoneworker, drew
a butcher knife as a persuasive in
strument. MisSh, the butcher, took
to the paving stones and police
headquarters.
Relationship of landlord and ten
and was cemented by attorneys in
municipal court with Missh's &C
acknowledgements, II don't want t.
persecute him-he's just a good man
got drunk"
Judge Markey tapped Tipps for a
$40 fine on the tipping charge and
discharged him for brandiShing a
dangerous weapon.
"T WENT to his house" averred
L Harley Jones, police sergeant,
in teStifying in the trial of Clifford
Black. Negro, 81, 1876 Puryear street,
charged with operating a blind
tiger, and went on the porch, and
I knocked on the door"
Il object, I object, to recital of
what else he did or saw. He had
no search warrant" argued Blacks
attorney.
The police sergeant never got past
that door knock in court. Judge
Marley sustained the objection and
discharged Black.
If Sergeant Jones has found the
Kohinoor diamond in the Black
home no one will ever know it; so
far as court records show he's still
knocking on Blacks door.