A LIVELY TIME IN A COURT ROOM.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 6, 10 November 1887, Page 2

A LIVELY TIME IN A COURT ROOM.

Lately the Countv Court room at Whit; Plains, N. Y,, was thrown into consternation by the advent of .1 i conib Tcmsr, a I’ceksvillc Quaker, who march;;.,i in with hat on and v.ok a sent wi luu tiie bar. Smith Reynolds the coun officer, who was ru in's post and sober, ordered Jacob to dofT his iiat, doom

rclu-cd. hoynoids. then knocked Jacob’s ha off with his pole. The owner picked up hj l:ut and put il on again, ItcyxioMs coliare < him and forced him outside the railing. Jacob get his arms around a post and hugged it li-.c a bear, yelling “ tshoofiy ” at t ,o top of his voice. Jocob was too much for Ucyixokls, win called for a-s: dance. supposing it was either a crazy or a drunken man. hj df-a-dozen officers went to ileynold’s aid. and, after a tussle, the old Quaker was ejected. Jacob then went to bheriff Hrundage, and demanded that his tights should be respected. The country, be said had gone to the D.evi! if a gentleman was to be treated in such a manner. 'The bhcrriif told him to go up if he wa« a f maker, cud put on half a dozen hats if he I k /d . Jacob thereupon tried it again, and f’eyr.old- attempted to put him out. Jacomb leaned against the wall and begun to c’aw cat-fashion. .Jacob’s hat was knocked off some ten or fifteen times. The Quaker then mound da bench and chaTenged the whole court to a knock-down tight, offering to clean out the room for a small consideration, Kcyiiolds. Harvey, Scofield, Willi mi Stillwell, and two or three ether officers, went for him and undertook to put him out again, Tut Jacob Inid his Quaker up, ran! instead of putdng luu our he put ih in out and locked ihe <,.00r. Jacob then went to Judge Giflj: rd an ; asked permis-ion to wear Lis hat. Per-mi-iion was given. Jacob eulogistically said that they ire 1 to make him take off his hat in hougre-s a few weeks ago, but they failed* and : c g 1 e red ha wasn’t going to let a otichorse croud around a country court-house perf rax a feat which they were tumble to active in Wasbih|to^