Show HELD THE ATTENTION OF THE POLICE COURT two women who fought until hon ors Were even decides judge murphy from saturdays standard i rachel johnbson alleged that mrs keyes both colored had atuck her under the eye with a hatpin the charge was assault and battery to which mrs keyes pleaded not guilty and as mrs keyes eye was blackened judge murphy decided that honors were about even and discharged the defendant warning both that it there was more trouble he would fine them severely on the stand miss johnson testified that ehe was down to a mrs darks house with the defendant and that the latter pitched into her she said thai mrs keyes cabled bed bad names and then stuck her with a hatpin 1 I dont start nothing said miss johnson but that woman ashes been a pestering m for three days and when I 1 was out in the yard playing with another ladys dog mrs keyes jumped on me and stuck me under the eye with my own hatpin then you jumped on mrs keyes murmured the judge of course I 1 did I 1 gave her that black eye said miss johnson and ehe smiled reminiscently while mrs kayes showed resentment the testimony of mrs keyes was at direct variance with that of miss johnson she said that miss johnson had started all of the trouble and that she mrs keyes had finished it according to mrs keyes there had been some compliments of a delicate nature passed between the two and she only used the hatpin after having been beaten by miss johnson As neither the defendant nor the complainant had a witness to corroborate her testimony the judge decided that both were to blame and so discharged the defendant |