Judge — July 29, 1916 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Stories with Smiles The Confused Juror—A Cleveland lawyer tells how, during a tri ul, one of the srors suddenly rose from his seat and flew from the court room. He was, how- ever, arrested in his flight before he had left the building, and brought back. “[ should like to know what you mean by such an action as this,” said the judge, in a lenient tone, however, as he knew the man, an elderly German, to be a simple, straightforward person. | . “Vell, your honor, I vill explain,” said the juror. “Ven Mr. Jones finished mit his talking my mind vas clear all through, but ven Mr. Smith begins his talking I get all nixed up again already, and I says to myself: ‘I better Ieave at vonce, und stay avay until he is done, because, your honor, to tell the truth, I didn’t like de vay der argu- ment was going.” —Cleveland Leader. A$5,000 Tip—A wild-eyed, disheveled gentleman, apparently from the country, rushed into the police station, shouting he had been robbed. Sergeant Pat Murnane finally succeeded in soothing him into coherency. “Now, let’s hear all about it,” said Murnane. . “Well, 3 half an hour before we reached exclaimed Murnane. “That train breaks ave | | St. Paul I had $5,000 in paper that I was bringing here to put in the bank. When er I got outside the depot I couldn’t find it put | fF anywhere. I don’t know where it went. * That money means a whole lot to me. If It T don't" lm ‘ow, now. Don’t get excited again,” uphere. Maybe the porter saw your money when he was cleaning up. I'll send for “Did you see anything of a small package when you were cleaning up your car? Murnane asked when the porter arti “Yas, It’s a lot of money, sah. “Where is it now?” ah,” and he produced it from an inside pocket The gentleman from the country cheered up perceptibly when he saw the rol ore “That's it,” he exclaimed. “And it’s ns all here, the whole $5,000.” * Now, look here, porter, 1 Murnane cir severely. “IT want to know why you didn’t turn that package in the minute you found it.” ¥ Why, sah,” he replied in an injured tone, s'posed de gemman had left it for a tip.” ‘St. Paul Pioneer Press. of | n. Could He Arrest a Cold?—A man was appointed detect for a railroad company, and he showed hi: authority at every op- portunity. 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