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Show 1st k to Jail for Hugging Woman Impudent Ice Cream Man Mixed Too Much Ardor With His Cold Business. N'EW HAVEN, June 21. John Den-more, Den-more, who drives an Ice-cream cart, was before Justice Clarke because he mixed the warmth of love with the chill of ice-cream. Mrs. Mary A. Benjamin, looking charming In a new spring bonnet and dress, was the cause and victim of his rise in temperature, tem-perature, and she appenrcd as complainant com-plainant against him. "Why, Judge, he wanted to hug me when he was peddling Ice-cream!'" said the young matron indignantly. "He asked for a hug. Then the horl ld man took one without waiting for my per-mlssI6n. per-mlssI6n. And he hugged me so hard that ho woke up the baby nnd the baby becan to cry. Then he told me not to tell my husband, and went on to peddle Ice-cream in the neighborhood." "Do you mean lo say, young man, that you so far forgot your employer's Interests and your wife and children as to do this?" naked the Judge sternly. "Well, Judge, I Just couldn't help It. because she asked me to. Even an Icecream Ice-cream man Isn't so cold as he looks." Mrs. Benjamin gasped In Indignation. "And do you mean to say that you could pot keep this womun from hugging hug-ging you or yourself from hugging her, whichever It was?" demanded the court. The Ice-cream man admitted that he hadn't tried to keep at the refrigerating point. "Sixty days in Jail," said the. Judgo. |