Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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WW fq,.f7,f,, V., ww wwf ffyiwi' g ,,,, , , n 1 if ,,,,. - :.:ii'iL i' .,. Now what would they do? What could they do? Tell why the joke was played? Disgrace Pete and his wife? All they would say was that, if no noise were made, they--the boys--would take them to Peter. But, owing to the fact that the public demanded better service than the force was used to give, the chief pished and tished their pleading and announced a near date for a trial. Guilty or not, public de- mand had to be fulfilled. The trial day came. Talk about crowds! Say! There were more people in that room which normally held fifteen hundred, than there were sar- dines in a can made for four. CAnd you never saw a can and only four sardines.J In the seats and out of them were people! In the aisles, at the back, men even tried to serve as jurymen! It was an exciting scene! Over there were the boys . In the chair aloft and aloof from the crowd was the Judge. Here was the broken hearted wife. It was a sad scene. Surely these words show that there are always two sides to a court room. The trial began. Lawyers argued and used mighty good debating mannerisms. fSixes ought to have been therej. Poor wifie cried and explained and cried 2 ' nl , G , , ., ,, Q 5 ff 1 the thousandth time they had told all they possibly could--that it was a joke. Now that they were scorned, they would keep still. So the law had them. If they wouldn't tell, why, naturally, they were guilty. One lawyer tried to give a pic- turesque scene wherein the two in cold blood were hacking poor Peter to bits. It was a gruesome bit of work but very effec- tive. Then the jury filed out, and after a short time, returned. Just as the leader was about to speak, a noise was heard in the back of the room. The Judge rapped for quiet. The noise became louder--louder. Then a voice shrieked, t'Let me in! Let me in, I sayll' A gaunt, be-whiskered man rushed down the aisle. HBoys! Judge! Annie! I ain't dead, I'm alive! Alive! It was only ---- t'Peter! 'fAnnie!'l Well, there couldn't be any sentence pronounced, could there? After the crowd had left, two rather middle-aged people walked slowly down the aisle, arm in arm. Oh Annie, how could I even have--- It's all right, Peter--I--I deserved it. ' 'Oh, but I 'm so--so happy--- Peter ----- it ended in a sweet, calm again. The boysf' remained dumb. For sigh. ak Pk if Pk bk 7 -V - als-cl 1 Page Fy'1y- Three

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