Show liE PROMISES TO DROP DEAD Magistrate Mott However Did Not Know the Hebrew Word Magistrate Mott adjourned court in Essex Market about the usual time Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon but the number of persons per-sons who are always to be found in a I New York police court crowded up to the rail and tried to advance their business I The majority were anxious to get summonses sum-monses I I tell you this court is adjourned cried the magistrate as he pounded on the desk with his gavel You must come around tomorrow morning But your honor urged one lawyer I have a case here to which I would like to call your special attention Tomorrow at 9 oclock repeated the magistrate obdurately I Will your nonor replied the lawyer inserting for the blank a Hebrew I word meaning drop dead I Tomorrow at 9 oclock repeated the magistrate obligingly not knowing what the Hebrew word meant When 9 oclock came yesterday morning the magistrate was well and heartyNew York Times |