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Show SAFE TO THROW Delicate Point Settled i in Court Case Against Attorney Fred (VlcGurrin Is Dis-missed. He Simply Somewhat Accellerated Speed With Which Man With. Bill Departed. r .'r ' ' ' From a legal standpoint it Is much bettor bet-tor to bring a lawsuit tnan to try to collect a bill by standtng In tho hai; of a holel nnd bawling tho demand over a transom. Two lawyers lestlllcd in Judge Dlehl's court yesterday that, In their Judgment, the truly Blaekstonlan method of dealing with an Importunate collector was to kick him out. Both thought that Attorney Fred McGurrln was unduly lenient le-nient when ho hustled a collector from the King Ilardwuro company out pf his office by tho collar of his coat and tho slack of his trousers. The story, as gathered from the witnesses wit-nesses on both sides, was that McGurr'.n had purchosod an oil stovo frnr: -ihe hardware company. Tho botto of tho stove melted out and sj- iro to tho house. It also made WGurrJn so hot that he refused to i.Cy for It. A bov from the store callod at the hotel where the attorney was Stopping and. In his absence, ab-sence, demandru payment from his wife. When he lieiu-d of tho Incident he tcJo-phohed tcJo-phohed to-tTic store to have the same collector col-lector sent around to his office In tho Atlas At-las block John B. Lilian, Jr . the book-JiCt-per, answered the call. What happened hap-pened subsequently Is a matter of dispute. dis-pute. Milan said that McGurrln, without with-out warning laid hands on him and "shoved, pushed and pulled" him half way down the hall. The defendant. Judge A. J. Webber and A. B. Edler tos-tllled-that McGurrln ordered Milan out of his office and. when the latter replied that he wouldn't go until he got ready, assisted him out. Judge DIohl held that tho preponderance preponder-ance of evidence was In favor of the defendant de-fendant and dismissed the case. |