Show 0 CLEARLY Al FAULT The Man Who Had the Audacity to Walk in the Park Chicago Post The trembling prisoners prison-ers dressed in the oldfashioned costumes cos-tumes of antibicycling days were brought into the prisoners dock where I they were confronted by the indignant young man In a golf suit They looked harmless enough and assured the court that they were husband and wife and had no idea of breaking any law We were merely out for a Sunday stroll your honor explained the husband hus-band and naturally we went to the park to see the flowers and get away from the dusty pavements No doubt your intentions were all right said the justice but you have no right to encroach upon the rights of others and it is becoming evident to me that nothing is so effective as a big fine In impressing that fact upon the minds Io uhn n nnn Ui un LUUU UU pup uu u u stantly brought before me I The offense calls for a penHenMarz i sentence your honor interrupted the I young man In a golf suit I assure you it was a most aggravated case and anything less than that would be a mockery of justice The justice shook his herd doubt fully It would have to be a pretty serious matter to call for a penitentiary sentence I sen-tence he said Serious exclaimed the young man in the golf suit Why this man and his wife actually had the audacity to I venture intothe park on foot Sunday I was foolhardy admitted the justice I jus-tice but so long as they kept out of the way of the bicyclists I dont see that I have any reasonable pretext for sending them to the penitentiary But they didnt keep out of the way of the bicyclists persisted he of the golf suit How could they do that in the park Sunday Further than that they didnt even try Why they had the effrontery to stroll along the gravel walks and bypaths that we wheelmen I I want to use in making short cuts from one road to another This begins to be serious said the justice scowling ominously And that isnt all continued the I young man I undertook to cut down one of those little halfhidden paths I and although I wasnt going over 15 or 16 miles an hour at the time they failed to C out of the way when I yelled at them and we all went down in aTieap I I was outrageous your honor simply outrageous They ought to be fined for being In the park at all Sunday fined I again for attempting to use the footpaths foot-paths sent to jail for Getting In my way and their sentence lengthened for not owning bicycles and using them While the justice agreed with the j man in the golf suit in the main he said that he could not forget that this was a first offense and that justice I should therefore be tempered with I mercy Consequently he let the offenders offend-ers off with nothing more severe than a fine of 200 and the costs each This by the way appears to be what we are coming to 1 |