Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-15 | Page 10 | Police Court Cases

POL8CS: COURT CASES "Tim'' Lippincof.t 's strong plea that lie fell asleep in the Continental bar and was not betjcinj:. as the complaint charged, and that he worked hard in tlic smelter at Garfield for n living, but probably sipped a little too froelv at the ,io3' enps, saved him f.wenLy 'days off the usual sentence for vagrancy in Judge Diehl's court Tuesday afternoon. Lippincott was fined $10. which means ten days, at reducing big rocks into little lit-tle ones. Jle said his real name is Pat McCuue. As an aftermath of payday at l-'ort Douglas, several soldiers were haled iu-to iu-to police court on charges of intoxication. intoxica-tion. Judge DichI discharged them. Several hundred dollars in gold was released re-leased to the soldiers at tho fori, Monday Mon-day and for a fact I hey had a howling time down in town Monday nighl. continuing con-tinuing their revelry until gra.y dawn streaked the east. Judge Diehl suspended T. Barker's sentence for vagrancy on his eloquent plea that he is trying to be decent, having sworn off taking "dope" New Year's day. Dick English was found guilty and five days was knocked oft' liis sentence, the hue being $25. Sin-dar's Sin-dar's barkeeper stuck English with his testimony that tho beggar with the j aristocratic sounding name uskod li tm for money two or three times instead of once. "R is not true," said English seriously, but helplessly. "Twenty-five dollars," said the court . '