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Show LAWYER AND OFFICER HAVE A LIVELY TILT A lively tilt between Sergt. Hcmpcl of the police force and Attorney Sorcn X. Christensen occurred at tho police station yesterday, when the attorney advised a client, Nint Wood, charged with grand larceny, that tho officer could not hold her without a warrant, and that she might go on her way. Mrs. Wood had just been discharged by Judge Dlehl on the charge of having been implicated in the robbery of Peter Johnson of $110 In money and a diamond dia-mond ring, aiul tho officer desired to rearrest ln-r on a new complaint Involving In-volving th-- name offense. It was then that Attorney Christensen advised tho woman to go, and she went. But Sergt. Hempel sent an oillcer to keep her under un-der surveillance while a warrant was being sworn out, and in due time she was returned to a cell in the jail. Tho sergeant threatened to luive tho lawyer arrested for Interfering with an oillcer, but later a truce was patched up and the matter will likely bo dropped. The larceny cast was originally brought against Mrs. Wood and F. J. and Florence Kelly as co-defendants, but all wero discharged on preliminary hearing yesterday morning. On the stand Mrs. Wood told conllicting stories, implicating and exonerating tho Kellys, but It 1? said that she admitted to Sergt, Hempel that sho alone robbed Johnson. |