Show FOR STEALlSf WATCH Clifford SentencedBault to Ee ceTveTnflljmenFrbdTy Bault and Clifford arrested on the charge ofJ > etit larceny in stealing a watch valued at t30 trom the person of a Blogham miner by the name ot Jloran were arraigned Ihs JustIce Court yesterday The evidence was to je effect that on Friday evening last Bault aud Clifford went into the saloon near the Poctoffice While there Moran came Iii and he three men had several dnnkstogether < < Moran had left his watch at the saloon as security for J5 which hetd 1prrow d r iij thep6jrl tor orne4ay prctlusly lIe paid the borrowed money and not de31nnJ1bat his friends should know that his ticker had been in pawn had the bartender sip it into his 07ercoat pocket Hal an hour afterwards Moran approached the bar and announced that he hade had-e n robber of nfj timepiece Bault was searched but the watch was not in hIs possession and suspicion then fell upon Clifford but he had disappeared Bault went after him yith the prom ige that il Clifford had taken the watch he would ser that Sit j was returned According to Baulta I own statement he met Clifford and asked the latter ifhe had touched Moran for his watch This Clifford virtually admUteJ ahd oa Bau1tt l1 ing him that If it were returned at once no steps would be taken to prosecute pros-ecute him Clifford promised to return Ubu several days elapsed and the matter was put inthe hands of IJetec tlvl i Fradks who traced1 the mISsing watch to a Main Street loan office where Clifford had obtained 10 on it Bault strenuously denied his innocence of any wrongdoing he had nothing to do with the heftof the watch v he saidand had received no moner from anyofe wrfoHid take According to histes monvhehad made the effort to have Clifford return the iwatch because it belonged Moran who was a inend ot his i r XUHbrd himself was then wornH is a soldier but appeared in court in citizens clothes In a sullen and surly tone he commenced This man Baulj Ts inrJoceat her J is no use hiding anything he had nothing to do withit Y QSTJeredidyotrgertbe Atch AionliknOW4JLfleveJsaWthe man before that I know of Q Did you take it from Moran AWelI with a grip I suppose I did I might have taKen it out of his pocket or out of his band Bault was lose to the man there were several people around Bault knew nothing about it Im no thiefI didnotfgo here with the intention of ste 1l gUi watch We had been drinking some I met Bault the same night some time I had pawned the watch when I saw him and told him I would go and get it I got 10 on the watch QWhat did you do with the money 7 AStood qp to ttie bai and drank it all There was no understanding bet be-t and myself that we should laTie the w tch Bault argued his own cap and said inanswer to the statement made by the prosecutor that he plead guilty to petit larceny some months ago in the Police Court because he had an object in so doinghe wanted to get out of the service of the United States Clifford on beinpaked if heJiadany thing to say uncoiled his lengthy frame irom around the chair and said I have beea at Fort Douglasthree years andwas stationed in the city one year I tooklthe watch but I had an object in doing so and I hope yon will be lenient The Court You may have had an object ob-ject Mr Clifford but the court doeanpt iicderitand it Do yon care taitate what the object was Chflord Well I took the watch that is all I have to say Judgment in Banlts case was suspended sus-pended until 2 oclock today and Clifford Clif-ford wasisentenced to pay a Tme ori99 and imprisoned 50 dajs rin default de-fault of the 99 qns > days Imprisonment Imprison-ment for each dollar < < of the fine |