Show THE VAGRANT ACT The Statute Under Which Arrests for Vagrancy Have Been Made The cases of Harry World and W Scanlan arrested by thepolice on Monday Mon-day evening for vagrancy came btfere Judge Spiers on Tuesday and on motion of their attorney Mr Marshall were continued until tomorrow at 2 oclock Considerable curiosity being expressed as to how the police came to make the arrest on such a charge a HERALD man interviewed a city official yesterday and was referred to page 617 Section 378 ot the Laws of Utah which reads I Every person except an Indian i without visible means of living who has the physical ability to work and who I does no for the space of jendays jseek employment ribr labor when employment employ-ment is offered him every healthy beggar who solicits aIms asa as-a business t every person who roams Ii about from place to place without lawful business every idle or dissolute person or associate of known thieves who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night or who lodges in any barn shed shop outhouse vessel or place other than such as is kept tor lodging purposes without the permission of the owner or partly entitled to possession thereof every lewd and dissolute person who I lives in and about houses of illfame ani every common prostitute and common com-mon drunkard is a vagrant and punishable pun-ishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days Just what part of the statute will be made applicable to the cases mentioned above remains to be seen It is understood that the defendants I proposeto make a vigorous figtit in the matter I |