Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1916 — Costly Merriment. [ARTICLE]

Costly Merriment.

“My poor man, how did you happen t j be arrested ?” asked the sympathetic prison visitor. “It wuz due to poor judgment, mum,” replied the second-story man. “How was that?’ “I poked a pistol in a cove’s face an’ he trembled so I laughed at ’im. Dat made ’im so mad he jumped on me, beat me to a frazzle, an’ turned me over to de cops.”