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Show BEFORE KESLER, J. Beck, the Tilltapper Fined Fifty Dollars. A GOOD MAN GONE WRONG. Youtufal Trespassers Who B eoame Wanderers Rather Than Stack: Salt on a Promise to Pay A Bowl of Soup Costs a Hobo a Week's Board The Police Court Mill Grinds Slowly But Exceeding Fine. Kesler, J., wore a very low collar this morning, but whether in anticipation of a swipe from the official ax or on account of the beat, the genial justice did not deign to inform his admirers who sat on the mourner's mourn-er's bench. IT COST him a week's boabd. James Murphy, an able-bodied but - die. figured veteran of many a tussle with King Alcohol, denied that he was guilty of obtaining obtain-ing a meal under false pretenses, and demanded de-manded that witnesses bo subpoenaed to corroborate cor-roborate his story. They, however, proved good witnesses for the prosecution, and before be-fore sentence was pronounced he made a plea for mercy, in which he said that he considered it all a joke, and that he never wronged anyone but himself. He was sent to the bull pen for five days. TRESPASSERS, BUT DECENT. Charles Mapleson and Richard Davis, youths charged with trespass, admitted that they were guilty bnt gave as an excuse that they were penniless and were compelled to seek a place in which to make the acquaintance acquain-tance of Morpheus. They were offered work, they said, at the Saltair salt fields but as the rule there was that 800 tons must be stacked up before any money would be forthcoming, they concluded they did not want any of it in theirs. They were discharged. dis-charged. A GOOD MAS GOJTE ROTCG. George Thackrah, a good man who it going down the toboggan slide to hadea on account of drink, was arraigned on the charge of drunkenness aad abusive lan. guage. He at first entered a plea of not guilty, but on reflection concluded to make a clean breast of his offense. - He also promised prom-ised If elemeney was shown to leave fop Montana within twenty-four hoars. Oa thie showing sentence was suspended unt& to morrow at 2 o'clock. THE Tl, -TAPPER SENTENCED. Abram Beck, the till-tapper caaghi In the act of robbing the Kentucky liquor store oa Monday last, entered a plea of guilty. Hta attorney, William Newton, asked for clemency clem-ency oa the ground that the defendant had t just recovered from an eleven-months' stck . ness, was a man of family, and had never been guilty of an infraction of the law before. be-fore. The defendant also denied that he had attempted to take anything, although he was willing to plead guilty. Thereupon the court sentenced him to pay a fine of (50 or be Imprisoned for fifty days. |
