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Show TOO DRUNK TO KNOW HIMSELF Frank Wilson, an aged man with pray hair and bent form, leaned on bla cane In the police court thU morning and adniitted to Judge J. I ). Murphy that when he won arrested Uet night he wan o drunk that he did not know his name. Wilson, when brought In the pnlrol wagon to tho police station, gave his cognomen as Johnson, .lohn JobnHou was what the desk sergeant Interpreted Inter-preted tho man's maunderings to I mean. When this name wok reail ni by the clerk of the court, no one an- ' swered to It, and when all the rni s had been read and the caes disposed of there still remained on tho mourners' mourn-ers' bench tho patriarchal prisoner. "What's your name''" asked the Judge, peering at the old man. "My name Is Prank Wilson, your honor," replied the prisoner, arising with difficulty to his feet. The desk sergeant in formed the court that the man had .been arrested for being drunk and that ho was booked as John Johnson. ' Did you glvo your nnruo a Johnson John-son when you wore arrested?" the. Judge asked, srlll scaunln the fare aud flgjrc of th" primmer. "May be 1 did. our honor; I was too drunk to know what niv n.iin really was at lb" time 1 was brought Into this building " "I don't want to wend ur: old man l'ke you to prison, but I'll give you a suspended sentence. I jn't be In might In here auiu." Tho old man di be left I In- court room muttered bis thanks mid owod that be WOllld leave tile i It . |