| Show POLICE COURT An Unfortunate Womans HardLack I Story Other Cases In the police court yesterday Maude Miller charged with keeping a house of illfame entered a plea of guilty at the ame time asking that sentence be suspended sus-pended during good behavior She had been driven to her course of life through an unhappy marriage and after obtaining a divorce had to support three children and as this was the only means by which she could do so she had been forced into I but promised his honor that if leniency was shown she would hereafter lead a different life lfe Sergeant Ford addressed the court in her behalf stating that he knew her history his-tory and it was a she had related Ho asked that sentence be suspended His honor granted suspension of sentence sent-ence during good behavior John Cannon was fined 15 for disturbing disturb-ing the peace Charles Smith colored man charged with resorting to a house of Illfame was lined the customary 120 The case of W C Colton who was arrested ar-rested several days ago on the charge of trespass and ha been in the court every day since awaiting trial was dismissed dis-missed on motion of the prosecuting attorney at-torney lom King whose face wore the marks or many years of hard drinking was ar r < jated on the charge of drunkenness and after he had made a plea for leniency honor promptly fined him 10 Then with a woebegone face the defendant turned aside to the spectators remarking and this is the return I get for all the work 1 did for him before election George A Dahlstead charged with selling liquor on Sunday demanded a jury trial For the prosecution Sergeant Ford and Officers DeYoung and Burbidgt testified to having seen men drink and pay for their beverage All this was seen through a peep hole which had been arranged ar-ranged for the convenience of those on the inside The testimony was of tha most positive kind and although the defense de-fense offered no testimony the jurors failed t agree The court read them a sharp lecture and discharged them I is learned that but one of the four jurors Theophilus Parsons stood out for conviction convlcton The case will be tried again |
