Show IN POLICE CIRCLES I I WALKER ACQUITTED oy THE CIIAUGE OF PETIT LARCEXY I Other Cases Disposed of Before notice Smith Ycstertlij Grand I I Jurors Will Investigate the I I Charges Against Levlie and Laf erty II Police Justice Smith and a jury of I six men yesterday afternoon investi1 I i gated I the charge of petty larceny standing on the records against Lafe Walker The ease was taken up atI I the afternoon session of the court under I the ordinances of the city but as it I j was shbwii that the crime must have been committed outside of the city I limits the title of the case was SQl j I changed that the people of the territory j became the plaintiffs instead of Salt I Lake city The defense demanded H jury trial i and the case went over until 4 oclock weJ unt I I At thit hour the court reconvened j and the jury was empanelled The I testimony of the prosecution showed V that late in September J S Rank of Mill Creak lost two sets V of harn san s-an the latter were found In the gJr ret of the house of Walkers mouicr in North Salt Lake With the harness har-ness were found two collars and one of them was identified by W J Crowither who on the 7th had lost i I several sets of harness To the of fleers Walker claimed both collars and on the witness stand I1 Crowther I stated that he had on the morning I following the loss of his harness tracked a buggy from his barn to the II home of Walkers mother and then to that of Abe Hunter I The defense as is always the case in these investigations for there have already al-ready been several placed a troop of relatives and personal friends on the stand I was shown by the evidence that Walker was at Kamas when the harness was stolen and that he did not live with his mother but at tha home of his grandmother Esther Pettitt The same old story of a stranger having put tha harness in the garret was sprung The jury discharged the de fendant by finding him not guilty Walker then gave up the harnes3 and dollars to the owners VV Ed Legrand who was charged with an asaul and battery upon a Frenchman French-man will not be given a hearing in I the police court his case having been transferred to Commissioner McNal lys court V V Dan Lyons was before the bar of the court some days agO on the charge of obtaining two meals under false pre tenses and entered a plea of not guilty I guit II to vagrancy and was again given twenty days in the city jail For committing a nuisance John I Nelson forfeited 2 The charge of assault with a deadly weapon and fighting standing against James Fitzgerald were dismissed at I the request of the prosecution V |