Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Spoiled His Alibi. [ARTICLE]

Spoiled His Alibi.

Charging her husband with abusing her, Mrs. Hairscum produced a handful of hair which she declared he pulled out of her head. “Why,” said the magistrate, examining the mass, “with the exception of a few strands of woman’s hair, this is apparently part of the prisoner’s whiskers.” “Thim’s his whiskers, sure enough, yer worship,” she replied. “I took this so that he couldn’t prove an allb —he’s such a liar he’l ewear an; thin’.”