Bingham Bulletin | 1918-09-06 | Page 3 | Try This on the Judge

v Try This on tha Judge. Automobile speeders, caught In the act and haled to court, certainly make the most magnificent liars. Every one of them invents new excuses, which actually smashes some well-known tradition. tra-dition. Can you Imagine a man who had stepped on the gns until It reg1 tered 40 declaring that be did It for one purpose only, and that was to hurry hur-ry to his mother-in-law's home? Court attendants and spectators who heard this unmnrrled-man-Iike admission, gripped the railing to keep from falling. fall-ing. "That may sound funny, your honor," explained the speeder, "but lt Is true." And then he .proceeded to make a second admission only slightly less startling than the first "I helped my wife dry the dishes, and that's what delayed me." - Of course, the magistrate laughed right out, said something about Ideal state of do. mestldty and permitted the road-burner road-burner tp get away with lt lie was told to go and speed no mare.