Show JVID16E rI j ftt TUN tg Horace RenshaTV a lad who Is old enough to know better was arraigned on the charge l of petit larceny it be ing alleged that he had stolen from W L Andeispr one Belgian hare of the value of S5 Young Renshaw pleaded not guilty It had been understood that Anderson was willing that the case be dismissed upon the payment of the costs by the defendant and It was shown that the prosecutor had no par Ucular desire to push the case but a disagreement between the defendant and the complainant arose and the result re-sult was that the case of compromise was declared oil and Renshaw will be tried today at 2 oclock I 0 a H L Weathers was charged with trespass The testimony showed that he had been caught prowling around the house of A Jenkins who lives In the southern suburbs The defendant said he did not remember that he had done anything of the kind He was fullIt Is true but the idea of burglary was far from his thoughts Mr Jen kins however Insisted that there was a screen door cut which had been In tact the night before when he retired and that while the defendant was the only ono arrested there was another man with him at tho lime of the al leged trespass Weathers was sentenced to fifteen days which ho took with 111 grace O A tiI W H Kinsell proprietor of the I3l 1 dorado room t1l1ouse was charged with having violated the ordinance concerning con-cerning soliciting passengers at the Oregon Or-egon Short Line depot In that hu had stood upon a portion of the companys property and solicited for customers outside of the place designated the Chief of Police for such purpose Kinsell was represented by A IT Thomas and there was a good deal of humor Intersperbed throughout t the proceedings pro-ceedings Olllcer Gillesple was the first witness and he testified that the dc fondant had been roaming around the depot soliciting business here and there that ho had warned him there was a certain place where he Could solicit so-licit but at no other Kinsell had failed to obey the rules and his arrest followed Attorney Thomas started the ball You are a drinking man MrGlllcs I pie are you not 1 Gillesple wanted to know what that had to do with the case I 1 un has nothing to do with the case lemarkwl the Judge and furthermore I the question Is Imperllncnt Thomaa seemed astonished 1 Why the fellows crazy remarked Gillesple sotto voce Beaten on this Thomas tried other tactics Ho Insisted on eudeavorlngto prove by the witness and by others that there was no line marked out where the solicitors should stand and I therefore the defendant could not know whether he was violating the law or not Several drivers of vehicles were put on to show that they never saw no line Baggage Master Lavldge however said It was generally understood by the I hackmcn and hotel runners that they I were not to encroach on the grounds of the company further than six feet from their vehicles It was shown also that the defendant had gone clear Into the depot yards and solicited There were several disagreements be Ciuim Thomas and the Judge and the attorney was called down quite sharply sharp-ly l several times i 1 do not remember that there was aylfluch evidence remarked the alto al-to flpy occ when Diehl had called tho attention of the court to a statement I I made Then It Is because yon have not been paying very much attention to the evidence evi-dence remarked the Judge Thomas then argued that the defendant de-fendant should be dismissed hEcause there was no line by which the distance dis-tance should be measured No case had been made out Diehls reply was brief Defendant had solicited on forbidden ground So far as the evidence Is concerned It seems to me said the Judge In summing up as though the defendants defend-ants counsel were endeavoring to get his client Into Jail There Is no doubt but that the defendant Is guilty as charged and I want to say for the benefit of counsel and also that the defendant may know Just where he is at that it is not necessary that the policemen po-licemen take red paint or white paint or blue paint and make a dead line The limits within which a solicitor may legally work have been defined by the Chief of Police through his agent the officer and that order must be respected re-spected I am going to suspend sentence sen-tence In this case however If the defendant de-fendant ever comes back he may be I sure that he will get all the law and Justice there Is In this court There Is no class of people who give us as much trouble as hackdrlvers and holel runners run-ners The public must be protected from them |