"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Saturday, August 19, 1899 COULDN'T SLEEP TO RAG TIME. Mrs. J. W. HINDMAN lives at 2800 Michigan avenue. Her husband is a carpenter. She has an organ. Elmer GILLMAN lives next door. He is a Missouri Pacific check clerk and works at night. If he sleeps at all, he must sleep in the day time. Mrs. HINDMAN sleeps at night, and if she plays her organ at all, she must play it in the day time. Having an organ, she must play it. But Mr. GILLMAN says it disturbs him to sleep to rag time. It may readily be seen that this must be very wearing on Mr. GILLMAN's nerves. One morning this week, Mrs. HINDMAN says, she was playing one of her favorite tunes in "scrap iron" time, when a stone came through the window and wounded the organ, besides tearing a hole in the screen. Several other stones hit the side of the house. Mrs. HINDMAN, looking from a porthole on the rockward side, was able to make out Mr. GILLMAN, dressed as if he had arisen hastily. Mr. HINDMAN was there, too. The HINDMANs had the GILLMANs arrested. The case was tried yesterday and all the stones thrown were in evidence. Mrs. HINDMAN says she picked them up in her parlor. Justice ROSS took the case under advisement. He might, in justice to both sides, hear Mrs. HINDMAN play an exhibition piece before he decides it. ================================================= (I have no connection with these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) =================================================