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Show MEREtY TOOK AN UMBRELLA Man Fined for This Innocent Exercise Exer-cise of Inalienable Right. CHICAGO, Dec. 11. In Justice Cavor-ly's Cavor-ly's court yesterday, unwritten rights wcro trampled under winter-weight heels nnd John A. Evans was fined $7C for following fol-lowing tho sacred tradltlona of his forebears. fore-bears. Standing speechless, mlserablo and aghast, the prisoner loomed in tho muaty court atmosphere as a human tombstone to a privilege that has been dear to mankind man-kind Blnce lime began. He vns no vulgar vul-gar criminal. No lust for gold hud napped his soul and no hand of his had been raised against a fellow man. He had stolen an umbrella! A nlnoty-elght-cont umbrella. A fraycd-at-thc-cdgC3 umbrella. An umbrella that was a-s mlserablo oven as tho prlwoner at the dock. When the cane was called Evans Htonpod Jauntily beforo tho magistrate. "The charge7" Inquired Justlco Caverly In humdrum tone. "He swiped an umbrella, your honor, I saw him do It," explained Policeman Schmidt, who made tho arrest. "Guilty or not guilty?" queried the court, atlll In sotto voce, i "I or that Is," responded Evans, hla smile dying away oa ho noted the glint of the magistrate's eye, "I I took tho umbrella Just look It, you know but I meant no harm." "No harm?" thundered tho court, "Tho man who stenla an umbrella Is the mean-eat mean-eat of mortals. 1 I lost ono last week myself. No harm? i'our punishment will be' S7j and coats!" , Still dazed. Evans waa led away. "No harm?" again ejaculated the court, tho magisterial neck expanding till it threat ened violence to tho collar that surrounded sur-rounded It. |