Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — Man With Pink Neck-Ticklers Was Very Touchy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Man With Pink Neck-Ticklers Was Very Touchy

CHICAGO. —A luxuriant set of bushy pink whiskers loomed in the doorway of Municipal Judge Robinson’s courtroom the other day. Behind them was concealed a man who later developments indicated must have been a Republican. “If that Isn’t Senator J. Ham Lewis ft certainly looks like him," exclaimed Judge Robinson softly to his clerk. The clerk craned his neck to see the man sporting the rainbow hued alfalfa. Instead of the peaceful junior senator from Illinois he saw a man advancing with clenched fists toward the court Judge Robinson believes the man must have been a lip-reader, as the remark about the whiskers had been made in a whisper. He was so wrought up he attempted to attack the jurist and was expelled from the courtroom only after a lusty struggle with two bailiffs and a clerk. “Where do you get that at?” shouted the offended bush wearer. “Do you think 1 came in here to be insulted about my whiskers? Judge or no judge, there’s nobody can accuse me of looking like any pink whiskered j

senator. I won’t stand for it.” A bailiff grappled with the infuriab ed man as he strode toward the bench. “Let go of me. Take your hand out of my beard,” he shouted as the bailiff twined his fingers in the patch of hair. The bailiff struggled manfully, but realizing be was no match for the gentleman with the Sampsonian adornment he gasped for help. It came in the person of another bailiff and a clerk. The combined efforts of Judge Robinson's clerk and his bailiff and the bailiff who patrols the hall of the ninth floor of the city hall wtre necessary to subdue the man. Finally hs was thrust out, cursing loudly.