Show BAILEY1S OfffNSIVE CONDUCl FINED S20 FOR INSULTING LADIES I CHURCH Positively Identified as the Offender Court Expressed the Opinion He Was Mentally Unbalanced The court was cleared of spectators yesterday for the trial of Frank Bayley charged with assault and battery Dennis Den-nis Eichnor was the counsel for defendant defend-ant and Assistant Attorney Shoup had the case for the city Bailey Who runs a grocery near the Swedish Lutheran church was charged with having acted in an offensive manner man-ner towards Mrs Ann Matheson in the Fourteenth ward meetinghouse on Sunday afternoon May 1 In Mathe son tho complaining witness identified Bailey as the man who was there and committed the offense which testimony was corroborated by her daughter Mrs Scovil Bailey however swore that he was not present at the place named on the day mentioned and said he had I never to his knowledge seen the ladle before Judge Tlmmony In summing up thecae the-cae explained that many offenses of a similar nature had been committed indifferent in-different houses of worship in the city and believed the police had In Bailey the author of the majority of these The judge then proceeded to give Bailey Bai-ley a lecture and wound up by saying that did he not believe the prisoner mentally unbalanced he would certainly certain-ly punish him to the full extent of the law but under the circumstances let him off with a fine of 20 The prisoner refused to pay the fine and is still in jail I |