Show A CHICKEN CASE I I POLICE JUSTICE SMITH HAD TO CALL IT A DRAW Mrs AVIiytocIc Declined to Prosecute Prose-cute and the Doctor Was Dls elmrfveil Evcrill Compelled to Use the Aipners Edily Promised to Leave Toivn Jerry Griffin Pleads Xot Guilty I Police Justice Smith had a chicken case on yesterday I furnishes the most amusing incident that has happened In the court for some time Joseph Wink less a arrested on complaint of James Nutt for allowing his chickens to roam in the latters garden and scratch up his early vegetables When Winkless w arraigned he pleaded guilty to the charge and in accordance with the custom of the court tho complaining witness was put on the stand In order to explain matters mat-ters s that the court could Judge a t the amount of fine that should be imposed im-posed After hearing the statement the judge leaned over and said Mf Winkless will be fined 2 At that Winkless said he had been unfairly un-fairly treated and that Oie wanted to put on some witnesses The court then reopened re-opened the case and Mrs Sadie Whitte more who proved to be a daughter of the complaining witness took Issue with her father saying that he put breadcrumbs near the fence she presumed for the purpose of enticing the chickens over In i former testimony Nutt had admitted ad-mitted killing one of the trespassing chickens and Winkless made this the occasion casion for impeaching his testimony notwithstanding not-withstanding this had been a mitigating circumstance Ho didnt kill i he said emphatically ally He just knocked the feathers off ita back He lied Ive got tho chicken home now By the time all the testimony was in the court decided that the case was a draw and the defendant was discharged I IVIiytoclc Discharged Dr Whytock charged with assault with a deadly weapon by his wife who alleged that he threw a knife at her and drove her from her home early yesterday morning was discharged by Justice Smith yesterday Prosecuting Attorney Harrington was present to represent the county and made the statement that Ir Whytock the complaining witness refused re-fused to prosecute Further he said that the affair seemed to have been a family difficulty in the midst of which Dr Whytock had thrown a pocket knife at hln wife As the blade aas not open at tho time this could hardly be called a deadly weapon On this statement the case was dismissed Belligerent Frenchman The French colony was well represented in the afternoon H Cero a dapper Frenchman being on trial for violation of tho bicycle ordinance and resisting an officer and a number of his countrymen being present 1 appears that he was riding without a light and was taken in by Officer Everjll When arrested he displayed such a desire to make It warm for tho officer that the latter was compelled com-pelled to use the nippers He was fined lIt l-It Was Outlawed C F EddY fie young flow accused of having escaped from custody In 1SD1 was up in police court yesterday bit the charge was dismissed as the ftatute of limitation had expired The charge of trespass however was insisted upon Kddy aid he was willing to plead guilty and get out of town and he was allowed to do soC so-C Clark arrested for crawling under the teat at tho circus and as a bad case generally was found guilty of trespass but was allowed to go on his promise to leave the city The band of young fellows who indulged in-dulged in fighting on the circus grounds on baturday were brought up John Hoy o or tnp worst ana rae aggressor m cue one te aggre business vas fined 15 The cases against 11 Rogers John Sutherland C W Poul I and W Smith dismissed I I dis-missed ton C Harris Smih were lis Assault and Battery Jerry Griffin colored arrested by Sergeant I Ser-geant Ford for assault and battery entered en-tered a plea iL not guilty He is charged I by W H Knox with having indulged in I I a little display of muscular ability at his a Jte i I expense Knox says he had a contract to I clean some wall paper and Griffin went to the place ahead of him and when he remonstrated Grifln grew angry The case against A F Freeman for I drunkenness and using abusive language in the Uuitah House was disinsbed as ho explained to the proprietors that he imtook I Il pla e he was in and was In fame error in sayng it was a house of ill Only Chambermaids Frtd Brooks wafe fined 10 for drunkenness drunken-ness and using abusive language Hemet He-met some females on LIe street an3 ac coted them offensively When told he should not use such language before ladies he said sneeringly Ladies Why theyre only Knutsford I chambermaids The vagrancy case against John Mc Namee was dismissed at the request of the prosecution because certain expected evidence could not be brought to hear F Tuttol the alleged pickpocket entered en-tered a plea or rot guilty ariU will be tried today The case against cxnreman Charles Splain for using abusive language Splan continued until Thursday afternoon after-noon on account of the illness of Captain Bywater who has been confined stomach for several days with an affection of the H McDonald forfeited 510 for drunkenness IeDona11 C Fitz ness and exposing his person gerald Joe Soda and T Merrill plain drunks were fined 5 each |