Show I t tD6E fM rlii 1 k1T N1E James Gallagher who had been arrested ar-rested on the charge of running on the strip along the street car tracks reserved re-served for bicyclists promptly pleaded guilty when he was arraigned In the Police court yesterday morning and he was just as promptly assessed In the sum oC5 Just as promptly was he thunderstruck Just OK promptly did he pay the fine when he found that he had to although pleaded ignorance of the law on the subject Gallagher now has a chance to go out and tell his acquaintances that for 25 cents he can tell them how to avoid a line of 5 e o o Robert Twlggs was called and he was on hs feet in an instant and answered 1Here Twlggs had been arrested on he day previous on the charge of having hav-ing trespassed upon what has now come to be known as the wheel l strip Officer Urry however failed to appear at the proper time and swear to the complaint and the defendant Aas discharged dis-charged on tat account Later Urry swore Ion complaint charging the lad with the offense and arrested him the second time The Judge however S discharged the defendant remarking that while he was In favor of prose outing all such cases he was not in favor fa-vor r of peueculion Such offenses should bo tried at the proper time ont In the proper place or not at alnnc there was no leason i why C defendant or at least an alleged violator of the law should be brought before the court the second time on the same charge Besides this the Judge was of the opinion opin-ion that to arraign the defendant would be a violatIon of the law which says that no man shall be twice placed in Jeopardy for tho same offense a 4 A Mary Ann Graham was sad and solemn She had been picked up in a condition such as to cause her to Imagine for lie nonce that she was the Empress Dowager of China and seemed to have a distinct distaste for anything that savored of blue and brass Mrs Graham also has an original origi-nal way of expressing herself which while amusing at times Is also liable to become monotonous She said she had not been before tho court for at least two years and in this she was corroborated cor-roborated by Kimball who does not appear ap-pear to like female pilsoncrs anyhow and with a kindly admonition from the Judge that she would stay away as long as he was on the bench she was allowed to go S S SIts S-Its no use I cant get away from them They will have me I do not understand un-derstand how It Is I am not pretty Not by a blamed sight But I havo seen mon who have done many things worse than 1 have ever done and the policemen have failed to get their lamps on them but just let me for one moment step aside roan the path of rectitude and na I ns tfaylng there arc Urose who can stagger till the cows come homo but if I wiggle a little or a policeman thinks I wiggle here I come again They say something about poor old Eph1 but that don t do me no good This Was the manner of the soliloquy of the Coloiul as he sat In the Police com ti oom yesterday awaiting his sentence sen-tence which he knew was sure to come despite his appeal for leniency 13ph has Imbibed many things In hla day and among these Is a deopseated belief that there Is a conspiracy in the police department to keep him in jail because Ire la handy to havo around the house His appeal was well made but thirty days followed it Then Eph smiled Might have been worse he paid and business closed for the day |