Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — Laughter in Court. [ARTICLE]

Laughter in Court.

A certain lad threw a large stone at the village constable one day, hitting him heavily on his helmet. The perpetrator of the outrage escaped detection until, on examining closely the missile which had struck him, the constable remembering having seen it lying on the window-sill of a house, whose youthful occupant he forthwith charged with the assault. “I experimented with the stone, your worship,” the policeman explained in court, “and found that when I threw it at an old helmet of mine it made an exactly similar mark." In pßut what good was that when your ’ead wasn’t inside the ’elmet?” asked the suspect. “Ah,” retorted the triumphant officer, “I thought of that, and put a block, of wood inside, just the same as if my head was there!” —London Tit-Bits.