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Show SO 111 Iff GOULD IT KEEP TO THE SULK Tom Picci,.an Italian, was given a jag test Saturday evening by Sergeant Biackburn. He failed . to qualify for sobriety and was locked in the city jail. "Holla, Osshisher," said Picci to the sergeant with a friendliness that booze occasionally develops in an individual. "Howsh she comin'?" "Oh, pretty fair," replied the Sergeant Ser-geant to his newly found friend. "But why this cordial greeting you don't need to kiss a man the first time you see him, do you? Where did you get your package?" j Picci observed that the sergeant was in earnest and sought to arguo as to his state of intoxication. Ho insisted that he was not even partially drunk. He, hadn't a drop, he said, other than a glass of wine several hours before. "I'll try you," said the big sergeant. "You see that middle-line in the sidewalk? side-walk? You hold that for a distance of ton feet and I'll not run you in." Picci, although drunk, was a sport and started east Tho line was approximately ap-proximately a sixteenth of an inch wide and the sidewalk about eight feet. According to the sergeant's testimony, tes-timony, Picci found the sidewalk too narrow. Consequently ho was taken to tho police station. Judge George S. Barker found the I defendant guilty of drunkenness. The usual $50 or 30 days in jail was assessed. |