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Show iiiEsIlu B! JUDGE iti Attempt of Juvenile Court Officer to Suppress Names Is Failure. Despite the effort of Ben R. Harries, chief officer of the juvenile court, to suppress, the names of the young men who pleaded guilty to contributig to the delinquency de-linquency of two runaway Ogden girls, each 16 years of age, arrested Sunday night at a downtown hotel, the names of the men were given to the newspapers yesterday by order of Judge C. M. Nielsen. Niel-sen. It was. found yesterday that Harries had not only refused to give out trie names of the young men, but that he had locked the register of actions of the juve-.nile juve-.nile court In his private locker. Recourse to the receipt book in the office showed that the men in question had paid fines. Then appeal was made to the court and Judge Nielsen ordered Harries to put the register of actions in iis proper place and leave it there for public inspection at all times. The book showed that Ezra Thompson and Donald McMillan pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of the girls and paid fines of $250 each. It showed that Blaine Hanks and Lewis Nockles pleaded guilty to like charges and paid fines of $225 each. Thomas A. Riley, night clerk of the Rex hotel, who permitted the girls to stay at the hotel without the formality of registering, it is alleged, is to go before the juvenile court today on a charge of having contributed to their delinquency. The gir!s are lodged at the detention home in this city. According to one of the young men. Harries of the juvenile court guaranteed him immunity from publicity if he would plead guilty;, pay a fine and enter some branch of tho military forces. Harries, according to one of the other yqung men, said he had "fixed" the newspapers so that his name would not be made public. pub-lic. When two of tho young men saw their names in yesterday afternoon's papers they accused Harries of- "double crossing" them and were surprised when told that Harries's influence had not been extended ex-tended to the morning papers and that no arrangement had been made with the publishers to carry out his alleged promise prom-ise to protect them. |