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Show NO TIME TO SELECT WEAPON Bridget Had little Trouble in Explaining Explain-ing Why She Had Used Poker on Her Hubby. Bridget was before the" magistrate upon the charge of beating her husband, hus-band, who stood near the desk with his head bound up in a mass of bandages band-ages and surrounded by an odorous cloud of iodine, indicating that he had undergone extensive treatment 'at the hospital. The magistrate called the wife to the bar of justice. "Now, madam," he said, "can you explain to me why you struck your husband over the head with the poker?" Bridget laid her hand on the bar and leaning far over so she could impress im-press her answer upon the attentive officer of the law, replied : "Shure, I hit him with the poker, your honor, because at that moment I couldn't lay my hands on the broom- stick that I most generally uses." |