Show I PORTER JOINS CHAI GANG AN Judge Diehi Refuses to Believe Ex Explanation plan tion of Man With Too Many Overcoats S Charles Whitney Porter exerted all his subtlety and eloquence to escape the he chain gang yesterday when the case against him was tried in the police po police police lice court But his efforts failed He will have h ve to spend fifty days making improvements on the boulevard I Porter was charged with stealing an overcoat from the office of Ben Heymanson Hey Heymanson Heymanson manson in the Utah Savings Trust building buildingS S Mr Heymanson stated that while he was absent from his office on Saturday Satur Saturday Saturday day a thief entered and took too It an over overcoat overcoat overcoat coat and hat In place of Heyman sons hat a battered old headpiece headpieces several veral s sizes too large for the loan agent was wa as left hanging upon the wall M J a clerk in a loan office testified that Porter had pawned overcoat for 3 a short time after the theft A few hours later he said Porter returned and tried to pawn a second overcoat Detective F M Wheeling stated that he had arrested Porter and found In Inthe Inthe inthe the mans possession a pair of gloves which had been stolen from Heyman Eon Porter then took the stand He said that Ke he e had no witnesses in his behalf and would let his fate rest upon the true story he had to tell teU to the judge jud Up to the beginning of f the dull times he said he worked as a bridge carpenter at Bingham canyon and at atM McGill M GIll Nov Nev Ne Then he went to work as asa asri asa a ri canvasser for Griffith the photographer photographer photographer pher On Saturday he met a man whom he lie knew as as Mac The man I was a bridge carpenter and had worked with Porter Mac had an overcoat oV which he wished to pawn He was of offered offered at several pawn shops Then rhen Porter volunteered red to t pawn it for fora fora a a 8 larger sum and took it to a loan of office office fice flee getting 3 H Hg claimed that he hemet hemet met Mac Mae in the Ocean bar Jar on South State street and delivered the money to the manin man In the Lion saloon also on State street str streetA t I As A to the overcoats he had pawned I 5 he said one was an old coat he owned and the other was a gift from Griffith the photographer photographerS S Judge Diehl DiehI was waa not disposed to b bf bc lieve Porters story and found him guilty k |