The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-16
AROUND THE TOWN
-After Dusk
Bv Phil Wright

Saturday merged with the dusk
# night. and venom = crime
gowed red. The bad that had been
man lived after him into the white
,tream of Sunday, to become in
dion on the leaves of Judge Win
feId Smiths court records.
In seven days mans sphere had
heen ruptured until the HanoWed
nawn reflected 81 offenses by
Now Hanoverians and their
quests. seeping poison from an
,,dder in Wilmington's bosom was
Mondays repertoire on the stage
Of the county's aging and yellowed
judiciary theatre.
The judge gazed into the blank
faces of well-known spectators and
wondered whether t h e script for
the first act Of the play should
have been changed when J. F.
Parish, garage operator in Prin-
cess Place. charged with imbib-
iDq liquor shortly before operat-
ig a motor vehicle, told the
courts they had the wrong man.
The car swerved when a rider
grabbed the steering wheel, Parish
nid. but added the other fellow
vas drunk"
Conclusive evidence by Tailor
Neil Calder led to a verdict of
not guilty.
Calder has been called from his
bed in his Sound home to many
tines 10 testify at court, that now
when a drunk is brought to be
hcacerated in the local bastile, he
merely looks to decide whether
the man is drunk, slightly III
sbriated or has just had a bottle
md a half of beer.
At curtain time" this and So
other acts had paraded across
the stage and Recorders Clerk
Marjorie Ellison h a d dutifully
noted all for the records.
MISS ELLISON
4 don't think people oughta' do
things exactly the way they do"
Miss Ellison unused, not TOO COM
prOmisingly, then they wouldn't
get inta the stews they do"
Monday faded into Tuesday, and
faint CLEAN stole into the judges
Eyes after he had directed a
slightly wayward spouse to pay
the rent and ''buy plenty of milk
for what his wife had termed
hungry kids"
The man had been charged
with non-support after his wife
had admittedly called tn e judge
md solicitor several times in the
dead Of night to say that her
husband left her without money
Tor rent and groceries. The babies
we're hungry too, she said.
PUZZLED because appearance of
NE woman would not warrant her
icllons, Smith continued the case
another 30 days, ito give the man
alne TO get a job and start right
he sid.
lhlS guy put his arms around
me and said things he shout
Nt a juvenile-looking. d%oll-faced
VII told the judge during the day
snea only q cases were calico
Tor disposition.
Inc story, according to the girl,
cared When a young seaman,
Salil Jones from the Coast Guard
su''er Mendoza accosted her at
Oroho and Princess streets and
ashed her If he could walk home
sNn her. These guys over there
s %% MN when it happened. , the
~I SAID, pointing to two men.
one declined his attentions. she
.o and had to scream for help
"oyS standing near.
me sailor said he was not drunk
%u mat he had not pushed the
svung lady to the curb" as
maIseo. But two boys who re-
n~'eoly came to her rescue told
UT court they mad seen the sailor
4oo.lesting the girl.
Inc sailor paid court costs and
%ss sentenced to 60 days on the
, 'aIm' suspended on condition
M ua ne remain good for two years.
%@llnlngton has always had a
J han spot for Cost Guardsmen,
su0se Smith told the court, but
amused the case, if present
nv. III Its true light, is a serious
r ne. tie stuck to his guns in the
bD s'.er next day when confronted
do+. 0le commander of the Men
not fall. '0l''An "io
d., r0e .0o(hghts played on Wednes-
s Say Haen 80 acts were pre-
to naea; Scenarists had written IN
bs Ne" Hsnoverians alleged to
ea,o '0i1efng with a veneral dis
lhey had not been in for
do ~4e"1nent in several months, the
off ysoF' A. H. Elliot. public health
ten,ierr' reported. They needed at
lairty days on the farm for
and TI mem. Smith said. The State
F. SIn Fig, tae solicitor rested.
orn en1ef " Ebert Brown, the at
narv,y; waived another "prelimi-
Why hearing for W. E. Nesom
!tono "alVered i'll On a lame foot
matt an auto accident. Nesom's
Junctioh a wild ride from Monkey
brestLso?h was said to be still
la, N'iing IN a Cherry Point hospi-
h]"usdnesday $ a ggered into
do Darlng the first act the pro-
|cf tbo LED wi a the retirement
Set in 9Nlp9er OF the local bailiffs.
Der G.. waite and black, the Skip
Onarlie casteen paraded for