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How She Won Over The Judge

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
August
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A woman resident of Detroit relates an interesting tale of Kansas justice years ago. It was af ter her wedding trip that ber husband was oalled to Kansas on business and a real estáte dealer, out of spite, had him arrested. The prisoner was taken before a local justice of the peace. The incensed bride insisted upon attending the trial, and while it was in progrese she so far forgot herself as to delibera tely level her opera glasses upon the justice, who dashed under the table and shouted: "Deperty, disarm that womanl" The officer seoured the glasses and cautiously laid them before the magistrate, who promptly flned the woman $1,000 for contempt of court. With gracious dignity she asked the right to defend herself, and, going up to the bonen, she explained that the glasses were not harmf ui, and had the justice look through them, and after a few pretty words of apology she preseated them to him. He hit the table a mighty blow to reconveae court, and flned the prosecuting witness $25 "fur iusultin a visitin lady and gent in oontrariety ter law and eterket" -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News