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Show POLICK COURT. Justice K ester's Morning Matinee The List of Cases Tried. John Maloney faced the court this morning morn-ing to answer to the charge of being drunk. He pleaded guilty but set up as an excuse that on Sunday he had experienced a severe attack of sunstroke and as a result tho beer he imbibed had flown to his head. "This attributing drunkenness to natural causes is about played out," said his honor, as he fastened his eagle eye on the second button of the prisoner's vest, "and this court does not propose in future to accept any action of the elements as a valid excuse. One man came in a few days ago and Jsaid he had been wading in water and got wet, and that was why whisky affected him. Another pleaded that he was chilled through and that his frame being benumbed with cold, liquor overpowered him. Now you come in and say that you were hot. You may go, but in future no attack of sunstroke will get you off." C. B. Malin was then fined So for druuken- ness, and Thomas Bytheway $2 for leaving his team unhitched. Chas. Dickson was arrested last night for refusing to paybis street car fare and resisting re-sisting an ollicclt He will be tried Tuesday at 2 o'clock. |