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Show oo POPULAR SLUG Iff BE THREAT j ! 'CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-I "I II gel your goat a threat as contemplated under the law? Municipal Judge Beltler held that it might be so construed, but he added tne following restriction: "It would depend entirely on tho rubject matter of immediate previous conversation nnd the apparent stato or mind of the goat-getter." John .1. G. Dykes, a rubber good manufacturer, asked Judge Beitlcr to stand between him and John E. Corns Head of a rt.a)ly company, who. bo charged, bad threatened him. The men arc brothers-in-law and Dykes averred that Corns had threatened threat-ened to "knock his block off Later it wa mutually agreed that the specific promise of Corns was "1 11 get your goat," accent on "vour " "I never read it In my Shakespeare " confessed Judge Beltler. in his decision de-cision "but men who hae d mon-Pirated mon-Pirated In this court room that thev were experts In 'modern English a 8ho Is spoken' have made me familiar itn It. Pending the decision of th cuurt of the actual physical process of gett.ng ones 'goal.' I think I will have to bold it a threat." |