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Show . POLICE CIRCLES QUIET. Hot Weather Is Making the Bad Men Peaceable. Not for many days has 60 small a "grist" faced Judge Dlchl In Police court as lined up on the prlJone.ro' bench Thursday afternoon. after-noon. The officers explain tho qulot condition In pollco circles by asserting that It Is too hot for even a bad man to bo bad or a vagrant to oxort "olmwdf begging. William Bird, John Dolonoy and William McGlnty. all charged with vagrancy, entered pleas of not guilty and had their cases continued con-tinued In order that they might bring proof that they wora hard-working citizens. Frank Rogers, colored, who Is alleged to havo beaten his mlstrcfs, declared that ho did not strike tho woman, and the city nflkod that tho case go over until Friday. Charles Miller, who waa picked up oarly In tho morning while abusively drunk, had grown both sober and penitent. Ho pleaded to be allowed al-lowed to go, paying, '"I will promise your Honor never to tako another drink as long as I live;" but, as this waa not hl3 first offense. Jo was his penalty. |