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Show "Bad" Man" Proved Handy With the Crockery JERSEY CITT. When Charles V. Hughes was discharged from tho con-i structlon Job of the I.ehlgh Vnlley rnllrond nt Blnck Tom, he didn't like! I tho twinkle In the eyes of the other nlnety-nlno who came with him from the1 South. It was this embarrassment that. I x$? "OJ '?' n,vol(! tho Greenville section of the' yif-r- (? c'ty with the dread that there had been ' lit&Kn Xifart anoll,cr munitions dlsnster when big s W (jfjHI T-r Charley "busted" five hundred plates,. Hgbttp2v't IjHtk cup8 ana snucers ovcr their hoods whlloi ' XtS, A ft tlleJ' wero nt breakfast in n freight cnr.! f VjMwM . ' Hughes, n negro, weighs exactly -V-ZiftyMR 220 Pounds, so when the boss told him! "- p55pjrPBBHPB he was "cnnnetl" and lio saw his! x us Svau VclX other, ho decided to let them know- .that he was going to remain with themi morally and physically despite the fact thnt ho would work with tlienoi no longer, and had to sever amiable sclal relations with them. So after Charley had taken In- a' few of Greenville's well-known nll-nlght; hostclrles he went back to Black Tom. It was Just breakfast time, nnd the crowd was seated about the tables In a big freight car. "If I don't cat here, nobody will I" ho shouted nt them. No ono Invited him to take a seat, so ho filled his araw with dishes plates, saucers and cups nnd ono after another crashed them-oil head often head. Then they came In bunches, Charley hurling a dozemot a time. The-lnterrupted The-lnterrupted diners dropped everywhere, wounded nnd beaten, -while Charley; strolled toward the pot of boiling stew. This was the climax.. Tho crash of the dishes attracted people on the fringe of Black Tom an they hurried to spread the news that "something wns exploding." Then thej police came and Charley Hughes was placed under arrest as he dropped an. ormful of knives and forks that he wns about to bring Into play. |