| Show < 1tiJj6 Thl tfiOlY ITN1 Abe Randolph patrolman app arcd II yesterday as special pleader In the caso of yilliam Bird who was charged with drunkenness I He was not so very drunk your t Honor as he came to me and asked t that 1 lock him UJ He said Ifhe was I i allowed hIs liberty he was ifrald he I might do something desperate Had I he not made a special request I certainly I cer-tainly should not have run him In ns 1 did not consider that he came under the rules designating what a plain drunk Is I i 1 Abcs eloquence had the desired ef I feet and the prisoner was told to go hla way and surrender himself no more I ti a Tall gaunt and very badly scared I was young Oscar Nielsen from tho Norseland lIe was charged with havIng hav-Ing committed vagrancy of which he knew not the meaning he said If he had been guilty of such a heinous offense I of-fense he was not aware of the fact I am a hard cvorkcr he explained and Ihave a mother and little sister I who are dependent upon me away back In Minnesota and when work became slack there 1 came West and endeavored I endeav-ored to do a little better I always work whenever 1 get a chance and Iliac I-liac never refused a Job yet 1 have I I been out at Wadsworth on the Central J Pacific and have a job to go back to I as soon as I can tot there I am a union man and a member of the Railway I Rail-way Employees union 21 of Minneapolis Minne-apolis I It was very evident that the young fellow had never been In court before I as his knees quaked and his voice quavered quav-ered as he told his story j He was told that he might go back to 1 Wadsworth Just as soon as he pleased but that he need not get an extra push on him because of the fact that he had been arrested Nielsen was very grateful as he left the room S S 0 It Is not often your Honor that 1 you see me II Beg pardon remarked the Judge It was Eph Kelly who spoke i I say it Is not often that you see I me Judge and as I only escaped from the despotic rule of Jailer KImball and the undesirable company by whom I have been surrounded for about thirty days I would take It as a personal favor fa-vor If you would allow me to celebrate Thanksgiving outside of the bars You know Yes I know but Ephraim you also know You are well up on Jail etiquette Indeed I might say that you are In a better position to know the I rules of the court and the headquarters than anybody in the room It would give the court great satlsfacllon to allow I al-low you to cat turkey somewhere else than under the watchful eye of Jailer I Klmball but It was Sunday Eph and that settles It as you know Then I would like to ask your Honor to make the punishment as light as possible remarked the lieutenant colonel Ten days will come easy this time If you can get the turkey perhaps Sol will allow you to cat It on tho back steps S George Ray admitted that If Just asking I ask-ing a man for a breakfast when he was hungry constituted the crime of vagrancy va-grancy then he was guilty He also suggested that he might commit the crime again under the same circumstances circum-stances Il was shown by the police however that Ray had become almost a chronic beggar and he will be fattened on bean soup at the expense of the city for ten das S 0 George Garrett admitted < that he had fallen by the wayside also that he should have known better he was old enough to vote He had a Job to do and was anxious to meet It When did you acquire the load asked the Judge Some time this morning You aie sure it was not obtained at the bargain counter on Sunday Sure Then the usual courlesiea will be yours for the first and last time however how-ever remember George said he would tic a piece of string around his finger when he came up town again and with that as a reminder re-minder together with the experience he had gathered he thought he would be able to say he had made his farewell fare-well appearance In any court a a Several forfeitures were announced DIehl arose and the docket ended for tho day |
