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Show DAY AFTER GHRISE3AS . IN THE POLICE COURT j i 1 It was a sorrowful looking lot of men " who faced Judge DJehl and waited for the wheel of the mill of Justice to begin I " their revolutions, and torn out the grist, f 1 ' Tuesday afternoon. ; : Some there Wre whose eyes were bruised, and blackened, whose faces were torn and scarred from sanguinary battles, or whose clothes were covered r with the mud and filth or the street. . . One, a negro, was charged with two ! offenses. He was alleged to have dl " turbed the peace and to have also been -, a vagrant.-. " I : .When his case was called, the court . looked In amaiement at the muffler ! -" that the accused Henry Jacksonv known in police circles as "Bad Eye," wore. It s , was m wonderful conglomeration of yel-r yel-r low, pink, green and scarlet, with blue and white polka dots. "What's the matter, Jackson?" asked . the court. - v C"Ah dunno. ,Ah was arrested Chris' -,- mis f er hollerta'." - . ""He is a vagrant," said . Patrolman Seigfus." - : "Ah sin guilty of no vagrancy; Jedge, yer Honor," solemnly, said Jackson as he rolled his chalky eyeballs up so that only ar segment of the dark circle could be seen. . - - Patrolman Selgfus told the court that be has seen the defendant roaming about the streets at late hours of the night, as late as 4 o'clock In the morning, morn-ing, on several occasions. "Has yo eber seed me loafln' aroun saloons?" asked Jackson, accusingly. ., "I've never seen you doing anything," said the policeman. "Did yo' all eber see me drunk on the streets, er, raisin' any 'sturbances?" he asked. - - "Yes," said the policeman, in whose mind the Christmas "doin's! had left but few sentimental feelings. Patrolman Emll Johnson said that he had arrested, the defendant. - ' "It was at Floral avenue and Second South street He was hollering as loud 1 as he could.. 1 never, heard a man holler louder than'jAckson did. He had a can of beer and Had just come out of a sss-loon. sss-loon. He's a good man to get rid of. He Is always butting In where he's not wanted." ' . , - ' S , "What have you got to say for yourself, your-self, Jackson?" asked the court In his sternest voice, -"All Ah has got ter say, yo' Honah, is dat Ah was a-wohkln' all de time till ' ChrisTmus. Ah had a good time, yo Honah, f om dat. time on. Please give me a chance f git outen town, an' Ab'll go as fas' as eber Ah can, an' Ah'll neber come back here no mo'." a : "What have you been doing, ' Jack-1 son?" asked Judge Diehl. "Ah's jist got outen jail a few days ago, yo' Honah, whirr Ah was kep' fo' a hundahd an seventy-fi' days." "What were you sent up for such a long term for?" "Ah dunno. Ah guesses It was foh beatin' a fellah up some." - "On the charge of disturbance of the peace, , you are discharged. On the charge of vagrancy you are sentenced to pay a fine of $25 or to serve twenty-five twenty-five days in Jail." . . "Oh, Lawdiy!" gurgled Jackson as he flopped down into a seat, "an die here's Chrls'mus, too." ' Elmer Hull was the next victim of the mill, though he looked as if he had suffered his punishment before he was arrested. He was charged with being j drunk. . j "I'm guilty. Judge, it was Christmas," he said. He was then discharged. William Sollis, a frequent visitor, was warned by Judge Diehl to stay away from saloons and not get drunk any more or he would give him "the same punishment that was meted out to Eph Kelly. Ed Murtie and other habitual drunkards. "In view of the fact that It was Christmas, I will fine you but $5." said the court, and Sollis will "do" five. ' Jim Biley. an old-timer, was given twenty days board, on entering a plea of guilty to a charge of being drunk. T. J. Clark said that it was the first time he had ever been arrested In all his life for being drunk. He pleaded guilty, and was discharged with an admonition ad-monition to go and sin no more. " John Carroll was given fifteen days on the city rock pile on conviction of vagrancy. va-grancy. - The time for sentencing F. Monroe, convicted of vagrancy, was put off for a day. A. G. Ebert, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of using abusive language, fend was discharged after receiving the customary lecture given to first offenders, i-" Joseph li. Larson pleaded guilty to a plain Christmas drunk, and was discharged, dis-charged, as the Sunday drunk" rule, of fining $5 was suspended because of the fact that Christmas fell on Sunday. John Angove had Just come in from the mines for a good time. He had it. It cost him $5 more than he had anticipated, antici-pated, for that was the amount of the fine Imposed. Joe Burton, charged with a Christmas drunk, was discharged after pleading guilty, and Ben Lloyd took the same kind of medicine, A L. Davis, another Christmas celebrant, who took a wee drop too much, was discharged from custody upon explaining the matter to the satisfaction of the Judge. , "Pretty good session," said the Judge, as he folded up his ermine robe, at adjournment ad-journment and handed it to Eph Kelly; to put In the locker until the next session. ses-sion. "Yes, it was a pretty good session. Nearly all of them pleaded guilty, and that made It easy for me to be lenient with the majority of them. Of course, it does not always do to be too hard on them, particularly if they had a good time on Christmas." |