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Show A DANDY MUSTACHE. That is What Mr. Stain Says "Somebody" had who Threw Him Out of Womder-land Womder-land Not Long Since. AND HE WANTS MATERIAL DAMAGES. Mr- Rawlins, Attorney for the Defendants, Makes the i'laiiitifTs Motfcor lit Isir Feel so l".ad that.Sho Wants to l eave tlie Ccnirt Room, but the Judge ltaps tor Order. Charles A. Stain wants SoOOO of the money belonging to the Wonderland people. lie sat in Judge Zane's court yesterday and told his tail of woe to a jury. He has only one leg, and a mother-in-law. The whole family went to Wonderland on the Oth of April, and Mr. Stain bought live tickets down stairs to visit the curio hall. When the down stairs was opened up Mr. Stain, his mother-in-law et al. wanted to go down without buying any more tickets. Somebody, just who, nobody seems to know, told Stain that he would have to buy five more tickets before fcoing down, and Stain objected. In fact, he declared it was a sure thing game. Then the fun started in, according to Stain. This impalpable ''Somebody" ''Some-body" picked him up, threw him down and knocked him ail about, then he picked him up again and kimptjr threw him oat It was a sort of Ohoullahan tranie for a moment or so in which Stain played the minor part. He seemed to have bat one ambition left when Somebody got through with him. He wanted to tret his littie family, mother in-law and ail, together and quietly steal away- Sam Lewis and Ju.le Powers are cou-i cou-i ducting the cr.se for Stain, and Rawlins and Critchlow for the Wonderland foik. it is worthy of mention that-Jttdge Powers dace or twice seked Sam Lewis to sit between he and Mr. Rawlins, and that the Judge made a pretense of cleaning his nails with a claap knife whenever he interposed an objection objec-tion to what Mr. Rawlins had to say. Visioiii of fust Sjflng lists and f::st flying pitchers were stiil fresh in the memory of Powers. Mr. Ravlipa is a "aarkustical" sort of law yer man, and he tried to tangle Mr. Stain-once Stain-once or twice, bat Mr. Stain didu't want to be tangled unci he said so. Mr. Rawlins wanted to know if Mr. Slain knew vho so ma, treated htm if. Wonderland on Ann! ii. He said he did Dot. Thou he asked bin if he knew what sort of a look-iitg look-iitg man he was, and Stain aiu yes, that lawns la-wns a youngish, dudish looking sort of light weight, who had caught liitn by the collar and jerked him down, then jerked him up again and tore all the buttons oil his vest, and all t:;i time he had his wooden let: on. "Did he have & mustache V" "Yes, -ittd i, dandy too. He evidently thought that :" "You say he thought; what did he think" "That he was the la-da-da of the town and could doanythituf he wanted to." "Ever seen him since?" "No! D n't want to. I take puins not to see him." "You tliittk he knew that you had an artificial leg?" "I think he was the kind of a man who wouldn't care a G d if I had had an artificial arti-ficial head." Then Vr. Rawlins grew a triile close in his cross examination, it may be a little unkind. Anyhow the motir-r-iti-l iv trrew Licensed. She jumped up and rushed over to Attorney Sum Lewis and said: "Mr. Lewis I won't stand this. I won't stay in court to hear snefi questions asked." "Judge Zane looked pained, really irrieved. A far away look came into his eves, then re-memberiBg re-memberiBg the stirrotriditiirs, he assumed his usual judicial air antl rapped for order. Bailiff Sprague woke up and joined in the rap. Lewis and Powers calmed the mother-in-law and th ; trial proceeded. Mr. Stain then proceeded to teli how he had been treated by Somebody with a "dandy mustache." "I ju-t tapped him lightly on the shoulder," said Stain, "when he told me I had to buy other ticket-', and I said "if you people are doing business this way it is a bilking outfit.' "Did you tap him lie-fitly"" said Mr. Rawlins Raw-lins ii'sinuatiiurly. "Yes, I didn't want every body in the house to hear me, so I tapped him lightly and toid liitn w hat T told you I did. Then he caught me by the collar and began to shake me. He pulled me down and jerked me up getting get-ting aU the buttous on my vest, and then he threw me down the steps. The ease will go to tho jury this evening. |