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Show SERVICE MAN WINS RELEASE IN COURT Prosecutor Saw Vision of Soldier Facing Death XKW YORK. Feb. 4. It was Just normal and perfectly humdrum up In Harlm court the other morn-n(r. morn-n(r. rrinonera had come and prisoners had gone to Jail, out by discharge or had been fined. The calendar cal-endar was blankly monotonous fights, taxi diHptea. petty larcenies nothing of any consequence. Even the magistrate was getting restless. rest-less. The court attendant were dully dtscuring the details of the fight the night before in Madison Square (Jarden. (Jar-den. Professional bailiffs were doxing in corners r were dismally bemoaning th blight of the times. The habitues, ihe neekers nfle r morbidness, were frankly out of luck. Then thft policeman arraigned i young 'man pallid, about I'5 ears old. : shabby in drsH, nervous in manner. , The clerk took his name which isn't j necessary here his address, got the f.tct that hti had two young children, and tooked the charge; obstructing traffic at 1'ark avenun anil KUst street, .obitimers in the court turned away in lisg list ; nut in rig ever cam of t bene j 'This man was blocking traffic, our ' bonr," fa id t be po! ici-man, in t hat ' imp'r(nn I w j y t i-ffi'-r In i imiM "Ti li s, ati iT 7i is pu'shVa rt wTTTaKm up Ton much space. I ordered linn to move : oft with his two bolts of silk --that s all I of his stock in trade but be said ii-j ii-j bad a license. Jle Kairt that tbt- license it-nittled him to slay where he was. Of : cuursf, it didn't and when be K"t bois-1 bois-1 terous, I arrested him." j The prisoner said not hint;. The dep-i dep-i ut y usslstant district attorney. asignet . to that court, pushed up to the ntil and ' took over the prosecution. He wjs run - nlm; through the policeman's complaint ! and interlarding sections of the la w j which made it a heinous crime to be permitting a curt and two bolts of silk, cheap silk at that, to block this mighty i city's traffic, w hen he happened to ' glance at the prisoner. "Completely tying up traffic and re-i re-i fusing to move when the officer direct-! direct-! ed him to," he was making quite an I oratiott when he happened to glance. He quit talking and walked over to the defendant. j "Say. isn't your name Mo-and-SoT i he asked; "and weren't you in the Kif-i Kif-i ty - eighth coast artillery In the war? "I'll say I was, nontenant.' came the 'respond and hand met hand In hearty ;grip -and there came to the mind of i the lirufnmi ! pi"" hill mwi-iT i with murbinegiin bullets and gas, and ! of a figure with a dipatch case Iri-' Iri-' cite Ho-and-So - going up that hill. 1 looking death in the eye. until he dropped with a bullet and gas. The deputy assistant district attorney attor-ney turned to the magistrate and put his mental picture into word. He added add-ed that, as a result of his Injuries. So-and-So had to give up his prewar job of bookkeeper and become a pushcart peddler fur tho sake of the outdoor work. "IHscharged." said the magistrate, land Harlem court was again Just nor-,mal nor-,mal and perfectly humdrum. |