Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — SLAPPED HIS FACE IN COURT [ARTICLE]

SLAPPED HIS FACE IN COURT

Nickols Was Accused of Assaulting a Woman and Judge Gave Him Thirty Days. Canton, O—A new cure for slapping faces has been demonstrated by Police judge Quinn, who has become noted for the original sentences he hands down. Thomas Nickols was before him on the charge of slapping the face of Mrs. Bessie Mare, proprietor of the boarding house where Nickols lives. Mrs. Mare was on the witness stand. “Demonstrate to the court just how Nickols slapped you," she was ordered by the judge. She took the order literally, and, going up to Nickols, gave him a sounding whack across the face with her open hand. “About that hard, Judge,” she said. "About thirty days in the workhouse for you,” the judge ordered, addressing Nickols, as he called the next case.