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With The I Alibi Artists A Cross Section of the Daily Grind in Judge Mattingly’s Court k Read ’Em and. Weep. By DONALD MeDOUGAL. ” Orders Solid Diet. "I admit my client was drunk, 1 1 , but that's a thing that's likely to happen to anyone, I've been ~j drunk myself.". < '‘'.’i “I know da— er— I know you haye.'* ' "But not very often. I’ve lived to be eighty years old and I've •«»ly been drunk three times." "I know that, too. Ton were drunk (whispering to himself, like We say 'thirty days has Septem ber*) three in eight goes twice with two over and a zero;, three * goes inter twenty six times with j two and twoithirda over-hang these mathematical cases—(aloud, desperately) each drunk lasted twenty years." "Quite right, your honor. I . had the same complaint as Rip Van Winkle, bnly I had it worse.” "Yes, he woke up. Your client is fined ISO on his plea of guilty to driving while drunk." "A jolt like that should wake him up pretty thoroughly, your i honor. I I "I’ve got another kind that'll I I put him to sleep for six months if he comes in here again. What's that he's saying?” "He say The doesn’t like the dreams that come with that kind of sleep, your honor.” “Tell him to chew his food." A Backfire. ~ I "I paced him on Benning road from Twenty-eighty street to the bridge last night about 10 o'clock, your honor. My speedometer registered 36 most of the way." "The officer must have made a "Oh, yes; the police are always j wrong. They bring cases in here so they won’t have to go home and wash up after coming off poet. What did this one do?" • j “He mutt have got the wrong i car. I was only going fifteen miles an hour." "I never saw a defendant yet j ■ that wasn’t.going fifteen miles an hour. It’s a very sedate and popular pace. It’s what we call witness-box speed. Did you have a speedometer?" "Yes, sir—but it doesn't work." "That must be a great comfort to you. How much collateral did | you put up?” "Fifty dollars, your honor." "I’ll give you back half of it." The clerk: "He only put up $40.” "Give him back ten." The Next Step. "About 11 o’clock Monday night I was running down North Cap itol street and at Massachusetts avenue the defendant passed in front of me, going east in a Black and White - taxi. "The way he sizzled past me, your honor, he reminded me of a gtounder I saw last Friday, and I started to yell, but my throat was too sore. He only needed two wheels going around “the Union Station plaza, and for quite a stretch toward First street, he didn’t need any. If his fenders had been a little wider he wouldn’t have to go ground the plaza—he could have i hurdled the fountain, I think, i He slowed down to something i like twenty-five miles when he turned into Third street, and I got him ■■*' "You .stopped the grounder at third. How fast was he going when he took off at the plaza?” "He was doing thirty most of the way." The court: "Well, young man?” I Boob: "I was only going " . Both: "Fifteen miles an hour.” | The court: "And $20.” BOY SHOOTS PLAYMATE WHILE PLAYING SOLDIER I PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.—Play ing soldier in the home of Michael Koch, twelve years tod. at No. 2032 North Sixth street, Edward Ober holtzer, the same age, of No. 2103 I North FairhUl street, received a bul- j 'let wound from a revolver in the hands of the former boy. At the Stetson Hospital it is said I his condition is net critical. The | police sent the Koch lad to the I House of Detention. ’ | . LOSES SUIT AGAINST SCIENTISTS CHURCH I BOSTON, Oct. 16.—An injunction I asked for by William H. Taylor, I of New York City, a member of I the First Church of Christ. Scien- I tlst, to prevent the Directors of I the Mother Church from proceed ing with a hearing to determine Taylor’s standing as a member was refused by Judge Carroll ’ of the Supreme Court, who held that the Court should not interfere so I long as Mr. Taylor was given a | fair opportunity to be heard. oochi nun I rob mii mt Dub Stiffness Away With Small! Trial Bottle of Old St. Jacobs Oil I Stop drugging! Rub soothing Jacobs Oil right in i to your sore, stiff, | aching joints, and relief comes m- I stantly. st. Jacobs Oil is a harmless | rheumatism 11 nl - which never | disappoints and can-' not burn the skin. Get a 36 cent bot tle of St. Jacobs Oil at any drug store, and in a mo ment you’ll be free from pain, soreness and stiffness. In use for 65 years for rheumatism, sciat ica, neuralgia, lum- I sprains. . . I penetrating St. i bago, backache, ST. 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