Show TH THE READERS READER'S COURTROOM COURTROOM- Wife of Arsonist Is Innocent 1 By Will Wit Bernard LL.B. May Maya a Wife be bo Punished For Her Husbands Husband's Crime The wife of a druggist went to pick him up at his hi store late one night While she waited for him bun at atthe atthe atthe the counter he went to the basement base base- ment meat poured kerosene on some rags and started a fire Then they Vr I left The store tore burned almost to the ground However an Investigator for tor the insurance company figured out what happened and the couple were we arrested for arson The Tho court decided that the druggist was indeed in deed guilty guilt but his wife was not The judge explained that even though she was at the scene of ot the crime and probably knew what her husband was wu up to she he still hadn't actually lifted a finger to help him e eA A man got on a train without a ticket and when the conductor came along flatly refused to pay to for his bis passage The conductor an gruy crUy dragged the we man to the door and unceremoniously shoved him out even though the train was wa already on its Us way The Th man later bad had the conductor arrested on a i iC C charge III of ot assault and batter battery The conductors conductor's r excuse wa was that tha the train going very fast fait but the court cour held heW him guilty anyhow The Judge JudIe figured that tn the p. p passenger pas pas' tn deserved more mors court y h t A crotchety crotchet old bachelor became very angry whenever the children n nIn In the neighborhood got onto hi his property One day he spied a buy climbing ov over r the tense e into his hi yard As A. the boy dropped to 0 the th ground Bround the old eld man ticked his bulldog on the Intruder The Tho boy was badly bitten and later sued the bachelor for tor damages The man insisted that the young trespasser tres tre trespasser passer had gotten only what he deserved but the court didn't see it that way The Judge jude held the man responsible sea If a Man Puts on a Disguise And Scares Somebody Is He Legally Liable One evening a mischievous man decided to have young a little fun tun He lie dressed himself In women's women clothing donned a veil picked up a parasol and went tapping tapping tap tap- ping his bis way over to his neighbors neighbor's house The lady Jady next door evidently evidently evi evi- dently sensing some something thin peculiar in ld the approaching figure fleure ran 1 r sit t t ur screaming to her husband But Dut when the tho husband seized a baseball bat and rushed forward to do battle bat battie tie tle the prankster hastily made his bl identity known The woman was waa so upset by the incident that she aha sued the young oung man tor for assault However How lIow ever the tho court calif decided that tha no assault assault as as- sault nult bad had been committed Tb The Judge jud said laid that tar far from being ma licious the young lOUD pun man was only trying to b be playful |