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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
October
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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"I will show you how it was, yer i Honor," said a prisoner at the Poíice ; Court yesterday, as Jhe was being tried for an asgault and bnttery ou one Mary ' Mulligan, und he drew the following : diagram ou paper and handed it to the 1 Judge : A : c - i ; o i b "Now, yersee that the two sqnare plaus is the gardens, and A is me after I liad been chasiug that darned hen of hers till I was 'most dead. Yer can sec tl 10 sweat standing ou ray noble picture there. B is Mrs. JMulligau, who wae i Btaüding there swearing. at me like forty. Yer can seo lier open moutli now. D is the hen that was eating the only cabbage I had at O. Wall, tho way of it was : I was a ehasin' that hen an' I went 214i timos romu! that garden, and then Rhe slipped tlirough a hole in the fenee like greased lightning, and I let drive C, a half of a brickbat, over the fence at that hen, and it missed the aim and took ïkirs. Mulligan riglit in the i jaw, aud she quit sweariu' at me and sat right down in the garden and grabbed her chin aud yelled bloody muider, and tho cop came and arrested me. Judge, that's the ti-uth." "Ten dollars and costs ; committod till paid, and that diagram to be jilaced on file by the court officer," was tho crdcr of the Judge. Whilo the prisoner remarked: " Busted her darned head for her, enyhow." - Cleveland JIcrald.

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Michigan Argus