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Show i COURT UPHOLDS RIGHTS OF THE HOT TAMALE MAN said Prosecutor Willey. "Patrolmen Brown ana Simpson saw him begging. Hs had a revolver and $1.70 when be was arrested. "I don't like to contradict the policemen." police-men." said Welch, "so I will Just plead guilty." His sentence was thirty days. '-.-. :- " " Thomas Flood, a vagrant, admitted that he was such. - He was given twenty-one hours to getout of . town. . William A. CUilen had never before been arrested for being drunk. He was sober enough in court to remember that he had been drunk. He was discharged. The case of Mary Anderson,' known also as Belle Fisher, charged with petty larceny, 'went over without date, because be-cause the prosecuting witness failed to show up on time. The defendant was released on her own recognisance. William Stumnerbell was the star V performer In Police court Friday afternoon. after-noon. He was charged with vagrancy, and saw fit to plead guilty. Judge Diehl was inquisitive as to SummerbelTs history. . "What is your occupation V he asked. Tm a railroad man. , Tve been here nly two days. X worked. to Cent-vffle, Cent-vffle, last,"; said Summerbell.- - Prosecutor David Willey- seemed to know more about Summerbell than he himself knew. : - - ,' "This -man is a beggar. He tackled very-man who passed. He would not allow any one to pass him on the sidewalk side-walk without asking him for, money." Clerk Leary had been eying Summer Sum-mer bell carefully. Then Leary smiled and chuckled. .. .m "Say." be said to the prisoner, 'didn t you stop me twice and , ask me for money the other night?"" -' "Tea" said Summerbell, and visions of a California trip he would not be able to take flitted through his mind! "He not only begged from the clerk of this court, said Prosecutor Willey. "but he begged from the hot ' tamale man on the corner as well.' The court might have stood for Summerbell Sum-merbell begging from the clerk, but the act of begging from his old friend, the tamale man, was too much. "Forty days," said the court. "I was goln' out of town today, but I guess Z won't travel for a while now, will r?" said Summerbell as he sat down. It was two to one against Richard Welch, and he got thirty days. Welch was charged with vagrancy. "I had a right to peddle those shoelaces," shoe-laces," said Welch when he was ar " ralgned. "The Mayor gave me a permit per-mit to sell them." "You are charged with vagrancy, and not with selling shoelaces," said the court. - -. . "He has - been a common beggar," |