Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — Fixing the Blame. [ARTICLE]

Fixing the Blame.

“Here, there!’’ yelled Constable Sam T. Slackputter, the redoubtable sleuth of Petunia. “You knocked that there innocent bystander down while he was peroozing along about his business, ran over him. stopped, backed up, and passed athwart, as it were, of him again. What in fire do you mean by such doin’s?” , “Why,—doggone it!” cried the offending motorist, “he knew me, knew, the name of this car, and knew, too, that this is the first time I’ve ever driv’ this’n or any other, and yet, dadburn him, he went and got right in the way I”—Kansas City Star.