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Show WHISTLING COSTS flit just nm Jtttny Astonishes 3 Judge Marshall. ijKVint to Sleep in Court and Dreamed He Was Calling IS His Dog. SfSlgnity of Federal Judiciary Main-S Main-S I tained After the Offender Had ffl w Made Profuse Apology. 3 1 ! HFT r0STS 550 t0 wnIst,e 'n thc United 4 II States District court for the State j of Utah. This price was established yesterday by Judge Thomas lar-all, lar-all, the whistler being an out-of-;Jpwn attorney who came down to make "fi&jfl&mollon on rule day. jj,To an"0,,e fa,nillar with tnc stcrn and :SvIolable decorum of the United States eSlKourt it will be Incomprehensible that jjjfefy person whatsoever would have the iSSpemerity to whistle there at any price, L 5s also dtJeationable whether the 'l party who did so in this instance could J nave been induced to give the perfonn--T" hce had he been wide awake. h lAitornes who saw the affair shudder jp when they speak of It, but. from what 5r can be gathered on the outside it an- pears that the country lawyer waa par-l par-l jjally overcome by the hospitality of his ' Salt Lake friends before he went into ! cpurt. The voices of his colleagues lulled him into a dozo. This in itself Is a serious violation of etiquette In the United States court, but aa he was .'3 screened from the observation of the 1 Judge, he might have slept undisturbed . ; had he stopped at that. But, a? he slept, he dreamed. He 0 imagined that the sheep were straying Into a farmers lucerne patch and that the dog was not at hand. He whistled Wk' for thc doff. The sound attracted thc I attention of the bailiff, but he was un-1 un-1 able to locate it. After waiting for what seemed an in-jRBtermlnable in-jRBtermlnable time for the dog thc- sleeping EflKistttorney whistled again, this time with flWpronounced effect. Judge Marshal per-jKMotm:Ci per-jKMotm:Ci a stunt which would be called Hf'rubbering " in a less dignified person, HBfind, with an infallible- judicial instinct, lldteco ered the source of the sound. mffm- ,,IkIr Bailiff, you will remove the Wff Krentleman and Instruct him to he here W iw. 10 o'clock tomorrow morning," Tas s 1jTie order irom me Dencn. -tP vThe sleeper waa awakened. At lirst lie wanted to stay and look after the 111, iiheep, but l he eyeo of the court were .jilin Anything but sheep's eyes, and he dually realized where he4was. For Mjrt Several hours hie frlendfe ha'd great difTl-jjj, difTl-jjj, culty in keeping him away from the jft Bouru He Insisted that he was in just jjWf the proper condition to call on the Judge and make explanations. Yesler--- lay morning at 10. o'clock he was called "V Jefore the bar of the court, a very iumble and pejilteut man. He made ifti jr.ofusp apologies and explained that his 6e& taP wa largely due to long contlne-lJ contlne-lJ hient In quarantine with a c-Ick family. ,tM F. ?n view of his promises and explana-tlous explana-tlous the unmentionable penalties which yvould have been made and provided, -- could anyone have foreseen that any-"v.r. any-"v.r. body ever would whistle In Judge Mar-'j&fr Mar-'j&fr Bhall's court, were dispensed with and 'he attorney was permitted to escape iron the payment of a ?50 flne. |