AN INCIDENT IN A POLICE COURT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2077, 31 August 1875, Page 2

AN INCIDENT IN A POLICE COURT.

The other day, according to the Detroit Free Press, "a little bit of a man, wearing a bilious-looking plug-hat," and speaking in child-like tones, was placed in the dock. " Why for, thou seedling ?" inquired the judge, looking up. ".I'm a prisoner, but I'm entitled to be treated with respect," squeaked the little man, • standing on his tiptoes, and growing red in the face. " Kespecifally you* obedtent servant," replied his honour, waring. his . hand around with*inimitable grace; "I won|t be made fun of—l tell you, I wou't!" squealed the prisoner. " Fun ! fun!" repeated the judge. " Sir, this i$ -.--. a serious world, with four pounds of heartache to one old-fashioned grin. . No, sir, I see no fun here. The charge is being drunk and raising a great row—a very serious thing." ", Who says I got drunk ?" squealed the little man; " who i says I raised a great row ? It is a con« spiracy to get me out of the neighbour- ! hood." " Prisoner, at the bar," said his honour, when the evidence was all ii}, " now is the time to make a Fourth of July speech if you are ever going to make one. If you have any evidence, hurl it at me." Silence. "Darius Worthington Jones," resumed the judge, after waiting for an answer, " you are chalked for Bixty days. . You won't set gut any onions tni^ ... spring, and you won't be around when the» :. first circus strikes Detroit. - May-day will find you making chairs, and June berries will have ripened and vanished ere we gaze upon your face again." As the judge pronounced this. terrible sentence not a trace, of waggishness remained in . his voice; each word that fell from his lips was pitched in a.tone befitting tha solemnity of the occasion. Ifye, impr.es,siveness of the scene was much heightens*! by the sudden transition from, " gay ito grave," and the diminutive prisoner was. removed from the bar in. a state olspeeohless horror. - " . .