Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — Try This on the Judge. [ARTICLE]

Try This on the Judge.

Automobile speeders, caught in the act and haled to court, certainly make the most magnificent liars. Every one of them invents new excuses, which actually smashes some well-known tradition. Can you Imagine a man who had stepped on the gas until it registered 40 declaring that he did it for one purpose only, and that was to hurry to his mother-in-law’s home? Court attendants and spectators who heard this unmarried-man-llke admission, gripped the railing to keep from falling. “That may sound funny, your honor,” explained the speeder, “but it is true.” And then he proceeded to make a second admission only slightly less startling than the first. “I helped my wife dry the dishes, and that’s what delayed me." Of course, the magistrate laughed right out, said something about ideal state of domesticity and permitted the roadburner to get away with it. He was told to go and speed no more.