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Show ; POLICE COURT MATINEE iff fcBOTMMB a. f The small crowd who attended i the afternoon matinee Monday in I City Court may perhaps be attri-I attri-I buted to lack of proper advertis- ing. Had the public known the I nature of this performance they I most certainly would have given it a better attendance. I After a short delay the curtain . ' raised at a few minutes after 2 P T- M. the plot was a charge of assault I and battery by Mrs. Earnest I Johnson, proprietor of the board I ing house, against one Fred Lund, ' whose attorney s had demanded ) a jury trial. It is a well known cus Dom among the legal fraternity to I call for jury trial when they feel I sure of the guilt of their client.. I Therefore act one j Jury impann-.1 impann-.1 elled. Act two, States witness is 1 I called. In this act it was brought out that the defendant had marred the features of the complaining witness by the mild use of a chair " in an altercation which took place r at the boarding house oyer a rebate re-bate for meals missed by the de--i fendant during a periodical spree . I and by the additional antagonism . of the complaining witness ' i when she threw a glass of water f on the defendant and ordered him j to leave the premises. I Act 3. Defendant represents a I a chair which was used to ward off the contemptuous beverege, which I he so dispised and the mild grasp ! i which he took on the arms of the I complaining witness and which I knocked her to the floor, all of which was performed only and solely in self defense. Act 4. Case argued. Why should an honest Miner, be made a criminal crimi-nal for merely striking an aged woman in the face with a chair t Urged the defense counsel in be-I be-I half of his client. I Act) 5. Jury instructed to retire f for deliberation.. Plea of defense i apparently wins the hearts of the i I jurymen who return a verdict of II I Not Guilty. Curtain. |