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Show One Man Given Six Months, Another An-other Man and Woman Thirty Days. RUIN OF A YOUNG GIRL IS AIRED IN THE COURT How Other Half Lives Is Told By Witnesses in Sensational Case. Al Miller, six months In tho county Jail. Emma Sahlborp, Uilrly dayo In tho county Jail. Charles Ilaughman, thirty days In the county Jail. Scvcnteon-yiar-cId girl sent to Stato Industrial Indus-trial school. Tho above was tho net result of a hearing hear-ing In tho Juvenile court Saturday upon the showing of a mothor that her seven-teen-yenr-old daughter had been ruined. Al Miller, who wns sent to tho county Jail for six months for contributing to the delinquency of a minor Is Moor manager of tho U talma Park dancing pavilion and an ox-prlzoilghter; Emma Sahlberg Is a woman of 22 years, who testified that her downfall was caused by the seventcen-year-old girl; Charles Baughman Is a young man of about 22 years, who Is alleged al-leged to havo contributed to the downfall of Emma Snhlberg. When tho court sentenced sen-tenced Miss Snhlberg to thirty days in Jail she fell to tho lloor In a fnlnt. Preferred Long Prison Term. Judge Brown was busy during tho greater portion of tho afternoon In tho hearing of tho case. Tho testimony was to tho general effect that tho seventeen-year-old girl had been betrayed by Miller, who first offered to marry her and then wanted to marry tho Sahlberg woman. Tho younger girl told Judge Brown that sho would prefer spending five years In tho reform school rather than marry Miller, Mil-ler, but the older girl said she would marry tho man. Irrespective of what he had done. Six Months for Miller. In sentencing Miller to six months In tho county Jail, Judgo Brown said: "I wish I could handle you for unlawful cohabitation co-habitation and send you to State's prison for twenty years, but I cannot. You should have helped this girl, but, Instead, you ruined her. You then told her that you would marry her. and In a week or so you told this other girl that you would marry her." Ono Peculiar Feature. Ono peculiar featuro of the proceedings wns the testimony of Miss Sahlberg, 22 years old, to tho effect that her downfall down-fall wns caused by tho seventeen-year-old girl, who, she said, took her to a room, where sho was. In effect, criminally crim-inally assaulted. Miller Not Yet Through. It Is probable that criminal authorities will take charge of the caso of Miller, as his offense Is punishable by a long term of Imprisonment In the penitentiary. Girl Arrives at Reformatory. Tho girl who was sent to tho reform school mado the trip by herself, leaving tho city last evening and arriving at the school on schedule time. Taken to Hospital. Mrs. Boughman who became ill Saturday Satur-day arose from her bed while In a scml-frenzlcd scml-frenzlcd ami hysterical condition and wont to the city jail In search of her husband. hus-band. At tho request of Judge Brown arrangements ar-rangements wero made for her at St. Marks's hospital and the husband wns permitted to lcavo the county Jail long enough to take hr to that institution. |