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Show I COSTS $15 TO I COLLECT 50 I CENTS HJ Harrv Johnson was not able to col- H. kct fifty cents from Hebsr Eastman, H bo he hit Eastman in the eye -with his R fiet and Eastman alleges that the H blow was so severe that It knocked H him down. To prove that the blow HI did some damage, he exhibited a bad- H ly swollen eye to the court this morn- H tag. Johnson admitted that lie struck H Eastman, but excused his act because H he said he was called a bad name H after he had asked Eastman for the H return of a borrowed fifty-cent piece H The quarrel occurred last night on H Twenty-fourth street near Hudson H avenue- H Judge Reeder told Johnson that H words never constituted provocation HI ror an assault, and sentenced him 10 H pay a fine of $15 or spend fifteen H days in the city bastile. |