Salt Lake Herald | 1899-12-31 | Page 5 | Heard and Seen in Timmony's Court

HEARD AN SEEN IN tIllMONY COURT DIeMs reputation usa prosecutor is expanding It has gone out among the Crooks and he has got em faded Yesterday a man accused of theft pleaded not guilt but when DIehl started hIs case and the thief observed his method he acknowledged the corn f TII 1 A l1h 1 6 41 < > n 1 th n he went over to Kimball for fifty days I The man was Charles Gray who wan arrested while trying to dispose of an I overcoat two or three days ago by I Officer GillespIe The owner was located lo-cated esterday being Joe FIoretti who rooms at 59 South State street He missed the coat from the hallway whIle eatfng supper Gray pleaded not guilty first and FIoretti told his storY In describing it he said there were two pipes In the pockets and Gillespie immediately im-mediately remembered that Gray had to such articles Give them here he said to the I prisoner and thc thief reluctantly produced pro-duced them from his pocket ThIs was the last straw and when FIoretti identified iden-tified the pipes Gray whispered in the prosecutors ear I want to withdraw I my plea Ill plead guilty I Diehl was tickled imyardb Gray said he was a cook He had taken the coat because he was broke and saw it there Ought to be housebreakIng said the court as he turned the prisoner over to the bugbasket Diehl exercIsed his retentive memory and Said the docket was ended