The Topeka State Journal

ONE LITTLE LONESOME.

Rudolf Schell Drank to His Own Health and Was Arrested.

When Rudolf Schell entered the police court this morning, he was not happy. His head ached, and his air was a generally dejected one. He was charged with having been drunk.

Officer Donovan had found him brooding over the ills of monopoly in the alley back of Long's restaurant. He was not a boisterous drunk. He was quiet about it, and as Jailer Woodruff expressed it, "it was a soft, pleasant sort of a drunk."

Rudolf stood up and told his story to the judge. He was a victim of the late strike, he said. He had been employed by the Santa Fe at Raton, N. M., and his wife and two children lived here. It was Rudolf's first appearance in police court, and he hoped he would be allowed to advertise it as his last.

The judge gave him a good lecture and let him go.

A spectator to the case says that Rudolph is not all he seems. He says he has been working at Raton for a long time and has never sent one cent of money home to his wife who has been supporting the family by running a boarding house and that now he has come home broke to eat up her earnings.

An examination of the docket showed, however, that the man was listed there as 188 years old and Jailer Woodruff was called up before hizzonner to answer to the charge of falsifying the police records.

"I took his word for it," explained Woodruff.

"Well," said Judge Ensminger. "I want you to take notice that it is the order of this court that hereafter before you enter a man's age on the docket you look at his teeth."