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Show WHAT was characterized by Judge Dlchl as the most pitiful scene ever witnessed by him In his official offi-cial capacity was enacted in his court yesterday aftcrncon, when four young girls, bright, Intelligent hnd well dressed, were arraigned on tho charge of leading Immoral lives, and all, with an air of complete Innocence, or Ignorance, of tho enormity of tho offense, almost laugh-incly laugh-incly pleaded guilty. Tho names given by the girls wore Edith Smith, Mabel Jones. Beatrice Wilson and Ethc! Clark. Every one of them claimed to ho IS years old. although at least threo of them appeared to be two years younger. Sentence was suspended In each case until un-til today, upon motion of tho prosecuting attorney, who. desired to make further investigations In the hope of being able to bring before tho bar of Justice certain alleged men who have led the girls Into a life of shame. In tho event that It can be proved thai the girls are under age the charges brought against their paramours will bo made as strong as the statutes will permit. EthM Clark told the court that she lived with her mother on Second South street, between Second and Third East, but that she had been resorting to a rooming-house rooming-house for about a month, and that the mother knew nothing of her shame. Edith Smith has been making her home with a married sister on Tenth East street. The parents of Mabel Jones live on Fourth West street, but she lo under suspended sentence from the reform school. Beatrice Wilson has parents living on Third East street. As the court .questioned tho Wllsonglrl an amused amllo flitted over nor face. "What aro you laughing at?" Inquired Judge Diehl, sternly "I'm not laughing,"' giggled the girl. "Young woman' said the Judge, with tears In his voice, "you may see something some-thing amusing in this situation, but I tell vou It Is the most pitiful thing 1 have over seen In this court. The spectacle of four bright, apparently ladylike girls, with tho marks of dissipation not yet on their faces, appearing here and glibly pleading guilty to this terrible charge. Is to my mind about tho saddest thing Imaginable. Surely, you and your companions cannot leallzo what It means to your lives In thus choosing a course which Is worse than actual ac-tual suicide. I glady grant the motion of the City Attorney to suspend sentence on the ground that there Is probability ot warrants being soryed on those who are responsible for your being here." The cases against Ed Miller and others, charged with operating an opium resort, were dismissed on motion ol tho pr6se-rutlng pr6se-rutlng attorney, no evidence having boon forthcoming to sustain either this charge or the story which came out subsequent to their arrest to tho effect that the accused ac-cused had been running a fenso 'for stolea property Certain paraphernalia commonly common-ly used for consuming the celebrated Chinese Chi-nese narcotic, opium, was found by the deputy sheriffs In a room presumably occupied oc-cupied bv tho discharged defendants, but there was nothing to show that the articles arti-cles wore not there merely as souvenirs of a trip to- the Orient. They were not caught smoking them. u W. J. McCarthj appeared In court yesterday yes-terday with a face which looked as though he might have run against tho business end of a Missouri inula or a Kansas Kan-sas cyclone. He was charged with having been drunk and disturbing the peace, and !t looked as though ho had already got the worst of It on both counts. The prosecutor prose-cutor explained that McCarthv had Intruded In-truded upon the privacy of Louis Ilobeln and a few friends who ' were enjoying themselves In Mr. Hobejn's private gurden at tho rear of his pWce of business on Stato street, and that something of a Physical encounter followed the interruption interrup-tion McCarthy claimed that he was simply sim-ply "Joshing" tho bartender when a slx-tfon-f6ot plank struck him In the face and his head came Into contact with an elm club. While ho could not for the life of him see how ho had dono anything deserving de-serving of censure, ho pleaded guilty to both counts and was fined a total of $23. |