Show D6E fEl rri 4 NEr There was more of the tragic than the comic In the court yesterday afternoon after-noon and the heavy villain was David Crowther who was charged with assault as-sault and battery upon his father W J Crowther who says he Is 63 years of age and looks < It The defendant is but 23 and when he emerges from the term to which he was sentenced he will probably have more correct Ideas a to the duty he owes to his parent lie had gone home as the evidence showed under the Influence of the amber fluid Tho pater was enjoying an evening newspaper and had Just dropped off to sleep when his dutiful son wrenched it from his hand tore It up and then asked the head of the household how he liked It The pater was not slow in expressing his disapproval of such proceedings pro-ceedings and a rough house followed the son using a chair as a weapon and the father wore a pall of blue glasses and a badlyscratched arm as the consequence con-sequence of the meeting The old man who apparently did apparcnl not want to make the case any harder for the son than was necessary said he had don nnfh Ing to provoke the assault and lhnd really endeavored to avoid I but the Defendant Insisted upon running things running to suit himself and It was not the first time that he had suffered from l1t hands of the defendant The latter on the other hand said that while he might have used a chair he was satis wa fled that whatever Injuries the old man might have received was caused by him running Into the chair and not by receiving re-ceiving blows from It He admitted that he had had trouble with the head of the household before but It was largely on account of the fact that his father did not appreciate humor When the son went home and slapped the old man on tho back in a fashion that amused him the father was liable to get angry and tell him that there was nothing funny about It When he snatched the paper away from him and tore It Into shreds his father also ob jected Tho old man was In fact ut terly devoid of humor In any form if the word of the son was to be believed I was shown however that in his en deavor to make the old man sec the funny things of this life that he had on more than one occasion tried to pound it into him The Judge was severe I is evident he remarked that when the law concerning assault and battery was passed the men who made I never had In mind that such con duct as you have been guilty of was possible They did not seem to think for moment t that a man of 23 years would maltreat his father to such an extent as using a chair upon him ram r-am only sorry that under the law I cannot can-not glvo you what In my opinion the nature your crime deserves You will pay a fine of 00 and be imprisoned In the city Jail at hard labor for ninety days I The defendant blanched perceptibly pcrceptbl as the sentence was pronounced the old man smiled feebly looked as though he would like to say a word to his son but then turned and walked out of the courtroom 4 4 Judge Laney appeared In court for the first time in several years and as the attorney for Sam nlorc Aberson who was charged with having run the elevator ele-vator In the Progress block when It should have been enjoying Its Sunday rest Sam J had worked there In the long ago and thought he could show the people a few things There was no disposition to prosecute the lad however how-ever and he was released with a gentle reminder that elevators had a right to wellearned rest on the Sabbath day especially when they did not belong to the man who tries to run them P S John Ellsworth was the most peal tent man that has approached the bar for a long time He had made a rough house of his own domicile but the Judge had listened to the pleadings of his wife not to punish him any more than was absolutely necessary l is well for you said the Judge when the defendant had entered his plea of guilty that you are only charged with drunkonnebs and this Is ane for the reason that your wife made apathetic a-pathetic appeal In your behalf Aa 0 matter ot fact you should go to the penitentiary But this time you will be let off with a Cue of 5 the court realis ing that whatever punishment Is meted out to you will fall equally upon your wife Dont ever come backS back-S 4 4 With the understanding that you will study ydur carrying capacity more closely In the future the you may go this time remarked the Judge to J A Wilson Wil-son who said he was a telegraph operator and had met some friends as soon as he came In town |