Judge — April 12, 1930 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Newspaper Mother Goose JOHN GREEN, CAT-KILLER, DRAWS 30-DAY SENTEN' Thomas Trout, twelve, a City Court: yester ainst John W, d, had drowned a pedigreed Per- sian cat, the property of the plaintiff. Young Trout’ said that he had pulled his cat from a well into which en had thrown her. Green was sent to the Pontiac Re- formatory for a period of thirty days. ared in complainant n, who, he al- MRS. CLANCY QUEER FARMER, SAYS ATTORNEY Mrs. Mary (“Contrary”) Clancy, twenty-two, of Kockleshell who ‘was arrested yesterday on a charge preferred by the Rev. B.C. Dee, a neighbor, appeared in the City Court this morning. The Rev. Dee alleged in the com- plaint that Mrs. Clancy’s garden was alleged that the noise of the bells, said to be made of silver, kept him ec. It was also charged that the neing of the a public nuisance. He JUDGE Dancies, who it was Sixteen Clancy alleged were rehearsing for a musical comedy, “Fair Maids,” was a nui- sance. James G. Murgatroyd. of counsel for the Rev. De examined Mrs, | The testimony follows in part: Q. Mrs garden grow? A. Very well Claney, how does your Edgar W. Doubledubb, Mes.Claney’s lawyer, objected. The court ruled. Q. Mrs. Clancy, you will have io specify. A. Must I answer yes or no? over, Q. No, you must not. How does it grow? A. It grows with cockleshells. Q. Would you call that a market- able crop? A. No, sir. And silver bells. Q. Is that considered normal agri- culture? A. I do not know. Q. T assume, Mrs. Clancy, that your cultivation of such exotic things has earned you the Contrary Mary. sobriquet of Quite The trial will be resumed this morn ing at 10 o'clock. JAZZER'S SON JAILED FOR STEAL- ING PORKER nas Alighieri, eighteen, of 25 East Thirty-second Street, son of the saxophon r, Paul Alighieri, was arrested yesterday by Patrolman Ea ward W. MeNamara, thirty McNamara said that young Alighieri had run into his arms yesterday morn- ing near Fleis Joralemon her's Dutcher shop on Street. McNamara said that Alighieri was carrying a pig, al- though Alighieri serted that the porker been consumed before the law's minion apprehended him, He said that he had meant to pay for the meat, but that he had become fright- ened and run along Joralemon Strect from Fleischer’s Fleischer, the proprietor, flogged him. ineat shop when Alighieri was dismissed with a rep- rimand and a warning. ANKLIN P, Apams comicbooks.com