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Show MADE HIM APOLOGIZE. The Severe Lesson Administered to an A d-dle-Pated Youth in the i'resence of Captain Oreeiimasi. He apologized to the ladies and was liberated. liber-ated. This was the mental order made in the case of the people against Willard Parish, an adolescent gun lighter who was arrested on complaint of K. C. Cunningham who charged him with assault with a deadly weapon. Parish according to the story is a member of a gang of callow fledglings who are boozed by a glass of beer and who, taking to the highways make, it a pracrtice of insulting inoffensive young woman as they pass. On Wednesday last during the crowded condition of the throughfares he aud his addlc pated associates made themselves them-selves very obnoxious to Cunningham aud a group of young ladies. Cunningham started to resent the insult when Parish drew a gun aud threatened bloodshed. Cunningham should have relieved the "thing" of his weapon and improved the condition of bociety by beating it to death, but he didn't. He had him arrestee! ar-restee! yesterday afternoon. Parish wai dragged before Commissioner (ireenmaii. He broke down like i baby and pleading that his mother was on her death bed succeeded suc-ceeded in rousing the sentimentalities of the prosecuting witness who withdrew the charge on condition that Parish make public apology to the ladies. This he did, or came as near It as an Imbecile was capable of, and paying the costs the court dismissed him. "I intend d to make an example of this degraded young beast," said Captain Greon-man, Greon-man, "but when the constable confirmed the report concerning his mother's illness, I felt constrained in the name of humanity to let him off lightly. I am told that these offenses of-fenses are of daily occurrence among a certain set of young striplings, and if the ofhc ;s will get them into this court I'll promise to make the practice a costly one to them. Nothing is so offensive to manhood of this class of mites and minions who infest the streets, and the sooner the' are taught a lesson tlie better for themselves and humanity. |