Show I COMMITTED JAIL I JOEL BECKXELL A CANDIDATE FOR I UEFO1UI SCHOOL HONORS I Twelve Years Old nut Incorrigible I Soldiers of the Tivcntjfourth Appear in Court for the First Time Minor Cases Before Judge Wcnfjer I With Sunday drunks vagrants beggars beg-gars and other petty offenders Judge j and Justice TVenger had a busy day yesterday In all 21 cases were disposed I dis-posed of Joel Bicknell the 12yearold lad arrested ar-rested for stealing shoes appeared on a charge of petit larceny He was convicted and sentenced to serve 15 j days in the county jail YoungBicknell has been going to the I bad for some time and his people avery i a-very estimable family have endeavored faithfully to correct the boy Notwithstanding I Notwith-standing he persisted in staying away from school and stealing anything that came his way He took a package of shoes which had been delivered to the Best residence near his home but which in the absence of the Best I family had been left on the doorstep I OlHcer Shannon traced the theft to the boy He had disappeared from home i i however and was not located for several I sev-eral days when Officer Larsen took i him in The parents had become distracted dis-tracted over the incorrigable youth and made no objection to his going to jail hoping it might have a beneficial effect I i COLORED SOLDIERS IN TROUBLE The first of the soldiers of the i Twentyfourth to make their appearance appear-ance in the police urt faced Judge Wenger yesterday They were Privates H B Ballantyne and W P Gunn The i former ws fined 510 for drunkenness I and the latter 5 for the same offense i and 20 additional for packing a namesake name-sake in such a manner as to lay himself I him-self liable to carrying concealed i weapons I j j FROM BAD TO WORSE F A Stanton just released for having 1 hav-ing abused a boif was given 50 days for drunkenness Some sentimentalists who didnt know Stanton was a tough i citizen took occasion yesterday to criticise the pdlfifie fjor being rough with him when he was sent to jail Sunday J evening They apparently didnt see the lump he raised on the side of Officer Of-ficer O P PrattS head when the arrest ar-rest was made SELLING LIQUOR TO MINORS J J OReiley arrested some days ago at the instance of Cornelia Paddock Pad-dock for selling liquor to minors was i I convicted and fined 25 OR iles of i i fenscr was selling1 beer to a child who I was sent to rush the growler He presented an order signed by the Guilds parents dated some time back I and calculated t9 be running order The court did nol seem to think anyone j any-one had the right to give another a I standing order to break the law l or at I least if he had that it was any defense and fined the defendant OReiley gave notice of appeal I None of the rest of the 21 cases were of any importance I |