Fifty Off For Cash

"Well, if yon want to pav the fine, it will be 5. If yon don't want to pay, it will be $10. Now, which will you have?" This is the way in which justice is dispensed in the Desplaines street police conrt. A dicker is made, if possible, with the prisoner in the dook, much on the same principie as goods are sold on the bargain counter of a Cheap John store. Last hight Thomas Gibbons, a teamBter, bought a chicken sandwich from a peddler at the corner of Desplaines and Meridian streets, and after eating the same refused to pay for it. Offlcer Ullmacher feit called upon to arrest him, and he was arraigned before Justice Doyle in the Desplaines street court this morning. After telling all the details of the transaction the offlcer said: "And wheu he was searched at the Btation he had trwo $5 bilis, your honor. " At this remark Justice Doyle brightened up, and grasping his pen said: . "Is that so? Did you have $10?" Gibbons pleaded guilty to the charge of having an unusual amount of money for a Desplaines street prisoner, and the court continued: "Well, I'll mak e it $5 if yoa want to pay, but if not the fine will be $10. Which will you have?" "If I have been guilty of any wrongdoing, I am willing to pay, but" "That will do. Take$5, Mr. Clerk." "But I don't think I am guilty, and I don't propose to pay a fine, " remarked the prisoner. "Oh, very well," said Justice Doyle. "You can make it $10, Mr. Clerk. Take him down stairs, ' ' and the prisoner was led away to await the arrival of the bridewell