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Show PLEA OF GUILTY; SENTENCE SUSPENDED Charges oT housebreaking 'against George Logan and H. K. Long were dismissed at the request of District Attorney At-torney Elchnor this morning and the prisoners arraigned on an Information charging them with petit larceny. Both of the defendants pleaded guilty to having stolen a suit of clothes from A. H. Eckstein on April 18th. Long then said he wished to explain that he had entered a plea of guilty merely to avoid waiting for trial, until the nex,t term of the court. He said he had never seen the man Logan before his arrest, and that he had been in the store of Eckstein on the day mentioned for the purpoee of buying a pair of shoes and had nothing to do with the theft. t Logan then spoke up and said be stole the clothes and that Long had had nothing to do with it. Logan was given four months In the cqunty Jail and sentence was suspended by Judge Morse in the case of Long until un-til ext Thursday morning. In the meantime the District Attorney will ascertain as-certain the facts in the case. |