Show POLICE COURT Young harrison Adjudged Not Guilty Guil-ty of Hurting the Girl On account of the attendance of the officers at the circus little was done in police court yesterday and continuances contin-uances were taken in many important cases The trial of young Charlie Harrison on the charge of too fast riding and knocking down and dragging a little girl on Second South street was taken up Harriet Hunter and Eliza Wilson who were witnesses of the accident were positive that young Harrison was guilty H C Harrison father of the boy said he knew his son had not been guilty because another boy had confessed con-fessed that he was the one who did it When asked the name of the other boy he at first said he ad promised not to divulge it but when ordered to do so by the court he said he had forgotten for-gotten the name but would bring the boy in this afternoon Two companions compan-ions of young Harrison named Charley and Albert Alt testified that he had been with them at 6 oclock and had then gone to fix a girls bicycle When he came back half an hour later he said he had been accused of hurting the little girl Judge Smith dismissed the case caseDowd DOTTI Up For Vagrancy Jack Dowd the belligerent man who was in court for having the fierce and dangerous dog with a special appetite for bicycles was not destined to be left in peace Early in the day he was arrested by Officer Johnson and brought into court on the charge of vagrancy for being out late at nights and being an Idle and dissolute character char-acter He pleaded not guilty at first tout later Attorney McGurrin appeared I and withdrew this plea and another will be entered today Inthis case Judge Smith fixed the bail at 20 This is the second time during the week that the court has gone below the 50 regular hail for vagrancy The effect i ef-fect may be to hurt the police in their i work Fred Breig found sleeping in an R G W boxcar was adjudged a rather Inoffensive fellow and was discharged On account of the serious Illness of Captain Bywater the trial of Charles Splain was postponed until Monday The trial of John CMcNamee was postponed I post-poned until today |