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Show HANDCUFF CIRCLES. The Patriotic Kesler ; Has a Busy Session. A WHITE-HAIRED PREVARICATOR. He Is Fined Five Dollars for Assaulting Assault-ing a Woman Suspicious Characters Char-acters Rounded l"p by the Police Held A Traveler Who Paid the ' Brakey-A Prostitute Demands a Jury Trial Youthful Vagrants in the Tolls. Judge Kesler, in these piping days of uncertainty un-certainty of official tenure, is possessed of a strictly business mood and no card sharp ever rushed the buck faster than he did the cases, on his docket this morning. i A WHITE-HAIRED PREVARICATOR. Benjamin Haddock, a white-haired patriarch, patri-arch, charged with committing an assault and battery on Mrs. M. H. Mayne, at first declined to make any plea, but finally confessed con-fessed that he was guilty, but how it happened hap-pened he could not say. "It is," said he in a voice filled wltu emotion, "the first time in my loos life that I have ever been hauled up before a bar of justice, and I am sorry that I have made such a commencement. I really cannot tell how it occurred, your honor, but I am here to tell ibe truth, and will confess that I was very considerably under the influence of liquor. Oh, it is a very sorry piece of business." busi-ness." The prosecuting witness declared that he ; v.-ss given to drink, and that on yesterday i accused her of informing the authorities "thai he had appropriated gravel, and empha- 1 sized his remarks by abusing her and pushing push-ing her, chasing her and stoning her, until 6he to ok refuge in a neighbor's house. The defendant, who is 63 years of age, asrain expressed his sorrow, and the court, after de iveriag a lecture which was worse than the punishment, fined him $5. The parties live in the vicinity of Fourth South and Third East street. A JURT TRIAL DEMANDED. William Newton, as attorney for Mattie King, chartred with prostitution, asked that a venire for jurors be issued and placed In the hands of the constable of the precinct instead of the chief of police, as be was fearful fear-ful that the officer detailed to serve the venire ve-nire iniffht he possessed of a biased or prejudiced prej-udiced mind. The court declined to establish estab-lish such a precedent, and ordered the city marshal to comply with the attorney's demand. BE PAID THE BRAKEMAN. Charles Lewis, charged with stealing a ride on the Rio Grande Western train, entered en-tered a plea of not guilty and declared that he hud paid the brakeman for the privilege of riding from Grand Junction, Col., to this city. Ihe case was continued until tomorrow tomor-row to irive the railway officials a chance to prosecute. A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER. Charles Smith, an alleged vagrant, who is sick and has only been In the city four days, acknowledged that he was out of work and penniless, but promised to leave townforth-with townforth-with if clemency was shown. Set for tomorrow to-morrow at 10 o'clock. A TOUTHFUL VAGRANT. George Conley, aged about 19 years, was also arraigned as a vagrant He has been out of work for only eight days and had money in his pocket when arrested. His case was continued until to-morrow at 2 o'clock. HI9 NAME DID KOT SAVE HIM. William MeKinley, an able-bodied and battle-scarred veteran, sailing under the name of the champion of protection, was consigned to the hull-pen for five days for drunkenness. , SHORT ORDERS. Henry . Hadley and John Smith, inebriates, inebri-ates, were each sent to jail for five days. Carl Neilson, charged with malicious mischief, mis-chief, forfeited 10. , S. E. Calhoun and Tom Burns, suspects on whom was found a skeleton key, were not arraigned, the evidence being -considered insufficient to warrant a hearing. |