Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1935, Page 28

THE EVENING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1938. WAR MANEUVERS PLANNED BY ARMY 150,000 Army and National Guard STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, DAILY SHORT STORY- FELON'S FATE The Judge Remembered the Pickpocket Who Stood With Bowed Head Before the Bench. - WoobDwARD & LOTHROP BY GORDON ELWELL. 'UNDREDS of suburbanites tramped through the main terminal at the downtown station, intent on reaching their offices before the minute hand of the clock made them a few min- utes late. They had no time to watch the stealthy actions of a mid- dle-aged, gray- haired man. He sidled up to A pompous-looking business man and reached a hand into his pocket af- ter jostling him for a moment. With a hastily muttered apology the elderlyv man crept away. But Detective Sergt. Thomas Dillon saw the robbery and was hot in pur- suit. He laid a heavy hand on the aged man’s coat and said. with a note | of grim humor in his voice “Well, if it isn't old Dad Jenkins! Up to your old tricks. Guess the! judge will be a-seein’ you, Dad. Come | on along.” The atmosphere of the Police Court | was rank with cheap cigar smoke. Clerks rustled papers with imagined importance. Minor politicians stalked up and down. Faces in the aisles showed despair, hope, rebellion. Finally a bailiff rapped for order. Judge Walter Brannon sighed | wearily and looked over his calendar with ill-concealed distaste. It was almost, more than a one-man job taking care of this court, which han- dled all the cases of the city's down- town district There was the Merlin kidnaping he'd read about in the morning news- papers. That was good publicity and clection was only two weeks away. He would have that case called later to give the news photographers a chance to make all the pictures they wanted. Three woman shoplifters. Sorvy | wretches. Probably probation for a wear, with his form No. 2 lecture to each. Red Nicols, the burglar, again. He was tired of seeing Nicols and giv- ing him the breaks. This time it would be six months in the house of correction. Sadie Hart—he'd warned her. Now 1t would be a $25 fine. Then his eyes | saw the name Samuel Jenkins and the charge—pickpocket. Judge Brannon frowned and fin- gered his pen, with which he was automatically signing the files of mo- tions for continuances. Dad Jenkins! Finally the disorderly conduct cases and other minor ones had been dis- posed of. The clerk called, “People of the State of Illinois vs. Samuel Jenkins.” Jenkins, shabby in a frayed over- coat, his hair untidv from a night in a cell, shambled up to the bar of justice. He hung his head. The complaining witness was Oscar Southerland, wealthy La Grange merchant. Jenkins stood with a drooping and dejected mien: not once did he look up at the judge. Sergt. Dillon corroborated the tes- timony of the merchant. The judge glanced down at Jenkins and said: CROSS COMPLAINT FILED Soecial Dispateh o The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, April 24-—J. Leslie Bowling of Silver Spring, whose wife, Mrs. Laine Marie Bowling, sev- eral weeks ago instituted proceedings in Circuit Court here for a limited divorce, charging desertion, has filed a cross-bill in which he asks that a limited divorce be granted him on the ground that he was the one deserted. | He also asks to be awarded custody of their only child, Joseph Leslie Rowling, jr. Not once did he look up. | is time that we made an example “Has this man a | record?” The sergeant unfolded papers he had obtained from the Bureau of Identification and read statistics in- dicating that Jen- kins over a period of 25 years had been arrested as a - pickpocket some six times. The po- liceman added re- luctently that there had never been a conviction. “What do you recommend. Mr. Prosecutor?” asked the judge quietly. Still Jenkins didn’t lift. his head. The prosecutor glanced quickly about the court, saw that he had an appreciable au- dience and began: “Your honor, here is a thief who has evaded justice for many vyears. His record shows that. I think it of men who have been preying on respectable citizens.” Judge Brannon closed his eyes for a moment. He scratched something on the file before him and said quietly: { “Case dismissed for lack of evi-| dence. Court will be adjourned for 10 minutes.” He strode into the chambers at the side of his bench while the police | sergeant and Mr, Southerland gasped. | Jenkins said nothing. With head still | bowed he shuffied from the court | room. | A cub reporter strolled into cham- bers and saw the judge gazing from the window, puffing at & black eclgar With the impetuousness of youth he approached the jurist and bluntly asked: “Judge, that guy sure looked guilty to me. Why did you think him in- nogent?"” | The judge turned and was about to make an angry retort at the temer- ity of the boy. Then he smiled. Only | his personal bailiff and the boy were in the room. i | “Son,” smiled the judge, “I know ' he was guilty.” The youth's face was A picture of amazement. “Years ago,” resumed the judee wearily, “that man was my first client when T was a young attorney. He had been charged with picking a | man’s pocket in a railroad sl,anon.l I fought and bled for him in front | of a jury and I won an acquittal. ! Years later he asked me to iepresent him again in the same kind of case 1 did, and again I got him free. Still a third time I saved him from prlsou.I “Today he didn't try to play on| my sympathies. He pretended not to| recognize me. now that I am on the | bench. Yes. he was guilty. But now | that I am a judge, do you think I could send that man to the prison from which I had kept him on those | occasions? “1 eouldn't—T wouldn't. Perhaps. | son, T am a very poor judge, but L' am only & human being. Let us get | back into court.” (Copyright. 1935.) | - i Tomorrow: “Hunger Strike.” by | Lioyd Price, is an amusing narrative of a fugitive who successfully turned the tahles on his pursuers. ! MARKS 90TH BIRTHDAY | Special Dispatch 1o The Star. LAYTONSVILLE., Md, April 24— Mrs. Columbia J. Waters celebrated | her 90th birthday anniversady here on Easter Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Samuel H. Riggs. | In addition to many friends, mem- bers of her family from Michigan, New York, Virginia, Baltimore and Washington visited her. Mrs. Waters Troops to Be Concentrated in East. By the Associated Press. Plans for concentration of more than 50,000 Regular Army and Na- tional Guard troops at Pine Camp, N. Y. and Mount Gretna, Pa., from August 17 to 31 for the first exiensive ‘war maneuvers since the World War were announced yesterday by the War Department. The first Army, consisting of Regu- lar and National Guard units from the 1st, 2d and 3d Corps Areas, will stage the mimic warfare with 36,000 men concentrated at Pine Camp and a strategic reserve of approximately 16,000 men at Mount Gretna. The maneuvers will take place in the vicinity of Pine Camp. Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, com- manding general of the first Army, will conduct the exercises. Troops to be concentrated at Pine | Camp under Gen. Nolan and Maj. Gen. Fox Conner, commanding gen- eral of the 1st Corps Area, will com- prise the following divisions: First (Regular Army), 26th (Mas- sachusetts and New Hampshire Na- tional Guard), 27th (New York Na- tiongl Gaurd), 43d (Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont National Guard) and the 44th (Dela- ware and New Jersey National Guard). ‘Troops to be concentrated at Mount | Gretna under Maj. Gen. Robert C. 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