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Show DID NOT PLEASE THE JUDGE Expression Used by Girl on Trial for Vagrancy May Have Had Some Influence on His Honor. "Sure. Mike!" Clara Johnson, on trial for vugrancy in the police court.' said to Judge Alice when he asked her if she had not been arrested on the same charge a short lime ago. "My name isn't Mike." objected the court. "However, you are charged with being a vag." "I didn't do ii." Hie prisoner replied, smirking arrogantly. "You're not right in the nead," commented com-mented the court. "I'm all right," she said. "What do you do?" "Work at John Smith's." "What do you do there?" "Everything." "Everything?" "Sure, Mike!" "Ten days," sighed the magistrate. The spectators laughed, and Clara, turning to them, shouted angrily: "I wish you'se had to go to that dirty place!" St. Joseph News Press. |