| Show IN ALL THE COURTS An Opium Joint Keeper Sent Up for 100 Days ARRESTED FOR ADULTERY i Two Crooks who Wanted to EscapeYene cainp Departs Supreme Court Proceedings The trial of Si Kee the keeper of the opium joint near Commercial street was resumed in the police court yesterday and the space reserserved for spectators vas filled with natives of the flowery kingdom who watched the proceedings with great interest The evidence was all against the defendant and he was found guilty and sentenced to 100 days imprisonment Annie Baker a girl who claims to be but sixteen years old appeared before Judge Lany charged with indecent conduct She will probably be sent to the reform school Dr C 1V Higgins Daniel Clift and John Duke were tried for racing in Liberty park on Wednesday Two park policemen swore that the defendants were racing but the three defendants swore that they were not and they were found not guilty Herman Roberts pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery and was fined 15 Paddy Boyle one of the old guard was sent up for twentyfive days for drunkenness drunken-ness John Mater who is accused of robbing a soldier of 810 will have a hearing today Charles Wheaten and John Miller who are charged with burglarizing the store of an Italian on Second South street were given until today to plead These men have just completed a term of fifty days in the county jail at Provo for stealing goods at American Pork and they nearly succeeded suc-ceeded in escaping on Tuesday night The Utah county jail was built by the Pauly Jail company of St Louis and the company com-pany warranted its cells to be proof against 4 cutting by prioners being composed mainly by solid steel plate toughened by a special process In he case of the Utah county jail however the com panys guaranty amounts to but little for Wheaten and Miller with saws made from the steel shanks in their shoes made three cuts each fourteen inches long through this plate and in a couple of hours more would have been out of their cell but for the officer They had worked in a dark corner of their cell near the floor and when the top and two sides of a square opening were cut they pried and broke out the section of steel plate Then there remained a steel bar which they had nearly cut through when their work was discovered It was the last day of their term but they did not want to face the burglary charge They are now in the county jail here The Pauly Jail company will be required to make good its guaranty to Utah county I John Hanady Charles Sorenson and Don McCover were fined 5 each for being drunk Charted with Adultery Monroe Allred a resident of Spring city Sanpete county was arrested in Emigration Emigra-tion cafion yesterday morning by Deputy Marshal Doyle on the charge of adultery Mr Allred was taken before Commissioner Pratt who set the examination for June 21 The defendant was released upon furnishing a bond in the sum of 1500 to secure his appearance that time The complaint was sworn to by Leon Lacon and the offense is alleged to have been committed com-mitted with Barbara Allred a plural wife Supreme Court The following business was transacted in the supreme court yesterday WTisatch Mining company vs Crescent Mining comprny argued and submitted Richard R Steele jr vs T S Boly et al argued and submitted United States vs Christianson argued and submitted Venecamp Departs George H Venecamp who is under indictment in-dictment in Minnesota for using the mails to defraud divers persons by booming a bogus lottery started for that state yesterday yester-day in custody of Deputy Marshal Hoge of Ogden OgdenUTAH |
