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Show A DEARTH ..OF CRDIE. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY EICHNOR ON THE LOCAL SITUATION. The Heroic Remedies of the District Court the Direct Cause of the Lull in Crime The Gambling Case Against Wilson Wil-son Police Tickings. "I can hardly recollect when there has been such dense vacuity in police court," said Assistant City Attorney Eicbnor this morning, "and don't know what to attribute the sudden lethargy in the world of crime unless it be Judge Zane's heroic rebuke which has been administered in the last few cases sent up to him. It is a custom among criminals to lay out a line of policy while they are awaiting trial and at the last criminal term it was agreed by them to go into court and delude it with pleas of guilty. Several of them followed the policy pol-icy and confesion3 were being: chronicled in job lots w hen up came the heavy penalties penal-ties aud put a check on them. The result is seen iu a dearth down here, and the reign of burglary which prevailed to such an alarming alarm-ing extect for some time is practically at an end." Failed to Prosecute. Ed. Slump the speculater who went against a faro game to increase his estate abandoned the prosecution of J. H. Wilson whom he had arrested for beating him out of 50 ycsterdar. and the case was permitted to fro over until 3 o'clock this afternoon. Slump, it appears, found out that the man who played the bank was as culpable in the eyes of the law as the man w ho conducted H, and realizing that he himself was liable to arrest and prosecution thought it the better part of discretion to chase himself away. ' ' Police Pickings. .There were two drunks before court at its morning session. H. McCardell forfeited $50 this ruorniDg for failure to appear in answer to a charge of selling liquor without a license. The department is looking forward to the meeting of the city council tonight with considerable speculation, as it is thought charges will be preferred against Councilman Council-man Pickard for conduct unbecoming an officer in his position. |