Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-01 | Page 4 | Cartoonist is up before Police Court

CARTOONIST IS UP BEFOREPDLICE COURT Artiat GeU Dote of Hit Own Sort of Medicine From -"Victim." I LINCOLN. Nob.. May 1 (By V. P.) I It la axiomatic that he who laugha laat ' glvee vent to the longeet and moat eattafylng series of ha ha O. B. Black, cartoonlat for a Lin- ! coin nawapaper, whoa eailrleal pan I ha a traced Indiscriminately and with keen delight the featurea of public off I- ! i data for tha amuaamant if thouaanda J of readera, appenred today In police 7 court on trial before hta favorlta vlo- tlma. J With III concealed delight and feigned severity. Judge H. J. Whltmnra J lacturad tha unfortunate artlat. on trial for speeding, soundly arraigning him for paat mladeeda dona In India Ink. J It waa tha pollca court'a tlma to I lauch. . "It la a pleaatire to hava you before tne," aald tha Judge. "You hava alan-darad alan-darad tha facea of tha force' and other publle servant long anough. I "Do you confeaa having committed that rank cartoon, libeling tha beauty of Officer llroa. who waa recently chaaed by a hootch mad Jeraey cow through O atrret?" tha magistrate continued. con-tinued. Tha cartoonlat confeaaed. 1 Black confeaaed alao to "burning lip tha aaphalt." After speaking feelingly of a thirty-1 I 'y J" aentanca and emphaaiglna It until tha cartonlat'a face irrew rather ) lone tha judge gave him tha uaunl fa flna and eoata. - -