JOKE WAS ON THE JURY.
Lioness and Monkey Brought to
Court to Answer Indictments.
Rubbing elbows with all kinds of folk yesterday morning, society and businessmen crowded and jostled each other for more than an hour in the criminal court building. For the most part everybody was good natured and even joked about a monkey and a lion that had been summoned to court on the same errand. Indictments returned by the grand jury against some 300 persons was the cause of the congested condition of the court room and hallway.
Some of the persons under indictment were charged with renting houses to the women who were in the crowd, while others were there to answer the charge of working on Sunday. Among the latter were Minnie McFadden and Mamie Ox, a monkey and lioness respectively. Judge Wallace, who has proven such a terror to the violators of the Sunday blue laws, was annoyed over the work of his grand jury and informed the manager of Minnie and Mamie home. Then he ordered those present to return Monday morning and answer to the indictments against them.
