Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Undone by Love of Pie. [ARTICLE]

Undone by Love of Pie.

Little Johnny is a Philadelphia boy with an appetite for pie, and the North American tells of the dismal failure of his suit against a railway company through an innocent disclosure of his prowess as a pie-devourer. Six doctors had testified in a flve-thousand-dollar damage suit that Johnny was an invalid as the result of his sudden ejectment from a trolley-car, when Willie Brower took the stand, and incidentally spoke of Johnny’s achievements in the pie-eating line. “Could he eat a whole pie?" asked the lawyer. “Why, yes, he ate five within a few minutes last week,” replied WHUe, enviously. In vain Johnny’a lawyers contended that the pies were very small and should not be allowed to figure In the case. The testimony was admitted; and the company’s lawyer argued that any boy who could eat five mince plea was not much of an invalid. The jury took this view of the matter, and decided that Johnny had not made out a case. The mince-pie testimony—for the pies were of the mince-meat variety—had been fatal.