Insulting A Police Official

A queer case of insult of officials carne up recently in a Berlín pólice court. A stone masón waB ordered by a pólice lieutenant to remove some stones from the highway. He answered in a loud volee ( that he would do so. The lieutenant objected to the tone of the answer and arrested him. At the trTal the man pleaded that he had used his natural volee, and the court refused to fine him, but reprimanded him for behaving insultlngly.