| Show = < hIDti ft 11ivt Ri 1 1 1UNEE Jim McCurdy has been before the footlights on many an occasion In the years gone by and he once morn bobbed Into public view i yesterday when he was charged with having been over collie by the afterdamp of a First South street saloon Jim Is a good honest sort of a fellow and he did not seek to deny that he had been Indiscreet You say It Is the first offense Mr McCurdy The court believes your story and trusts that It will be you last Dont come again unless you dlK I cover that you cannot possibly help It Good day a a I Harry Williams said that he had I I come from Coreys camp on business but he had discovered that he had been led into by and forbidden paths lie I did not have much respect fur the men I I whom he had met In this city and was sure that they did not compare either mentally morally or physically with the boys who were shoveling dirt and blasting rocks out near Alms They even vent so far as to get him drunk have fun with him and then refuse to slug the policeman Into whose hands Jc I had fallen This was a breach of ell quetto which would never be tolerated I for a moment even at Coreys camp and he was sure that If those violators of the rules of polite society as she Is lound at Coreys ever wont hack there they would be cut by the four hundred hun-dred dredThe The fine will be 3 I But I have no money and cannot I pay a fine I Then you may work It out on the boulevard a a James Cunningham tall and straight stood before the Judge He had been arrested on the charge oi vagrancy which under the definition given to It by the police may mean petit larceny riding blind baggage or murder in the I llist degree After considerable Hr cumlocution It was divulged that Cunningham Cun-ningham had been on a protracted I spree and It really did not need the expert testimony of a policeman to i prove that His athletic form shook like the proverbial aspen and It was 3 with difficulty1 that he managed to stand upon his feet Yes Im guilty of vagrancy ho said saifIaycnt you done any work lately I worked up to the 10th your F Honor Then why do you plead guilty to vagrancy He shook his head If you work you are not a vagrant Have you been on a spree Yes for a long time Well you do not Impress the court as being an ordinary vagrant and I am inclined to Give you the benefit of tha doubt with the admonition that c would be a good act toward yourself to sober up and become the man you were before you started out tho last timeYes Yes sir m i Well you may go a a a May it please the court said DIohl and he bore a striking resemblance to tho pictures shown of Napoleon as he gazed over the expanse of waters which surrounded him at SU Helena theo Is a case on the docket charging Agncn Eckcss with assault and battery It being alleged that she struck and vie lently beat a small boy named Turner The case went over until today becauso the city was shy one witness and he Is deemed to be a very important one It seems that the officers had an Meat that Mea-t they had roped the right man but an examination disclosed the fact that he was Innocent of all knowledge of the alleged crime We now have the officers offi-cers Ji J search of the man whom we be hove to be very material to the success fat prosecution of this ease and wo ask that the case go over until tomorrow tomor-row rowThere f There was some objection by Attorney I Attor-ney Lee who represents the defense but an armistice was finally declared and the tragedy of Who Struck Bob by or the Broken Buggy Whip wlH hold tho boards on Saturday next at 5 4 pm The Judge assured both parties to the th-e that there would be no postponement postpone-ment on account of the weather tho absence of the witnesses or any other excuse The docket ended at this point and i Kimball bravely walked slnglehandprf 1 and alone the bold bad men from the I I room |
