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Show CHARITY-BOX THIEF A RUSTIC HDHORIST Says Judge Diehl Doesn't 'Tec-Total,5' 'Tec-Total,5' and Compares Himself Him-self to Lincoln. Frank J. Silver, who recently finished serving seventy-five days upon the rock pile for stealing $25 from tho Salvation nm3' contribution boxes, has written a letter to Justice Dana T. Smith, in which he sa3s Judge C. B. Diehl, before whom ae received sentence, is a drunk ard anil puts lorin tuc ciaim mai uie oily owes him $130 .for the seventy-five seventy-five days he worked in City Creek canyon. can-yon. JIo solicited Justice Smith to aid in collecting tho money. The letter is incoherent and as an unintentional contribution to illiterate humor is a gem. Silver finds a likeness between himself him-self aud Abraham Lincoln, iu that both were poor and he frequently alludes to the bible. He admits the theft of the $25 but says the Salvation armv owed him that sum for work. Judge Diehl is a'drunlc-ard. a'drunlc-ard. in his estimation, and the judge afterward admitted, says Silver, that ho made a mistake in senloncing him to the chain .gang. "The city licenses saloons and Judge Diehl collects $5 from 'drunks' and then goes and gets drunk himself." is his brilliant but I false line of reasoning. The desk sergeant, I tu ned $25.95 ! found on him at the time of his arrest I over to the Salvation army, and Silver insinuates that this was wrong and tluit Adjutant uiumstcad misappropriated misappropri-ated the money, which was not stolen but was his own. ho says, i Silver, according to his loiter, is a , member of a poor but good family. 1 1 u I dill not gie his address but ended I assuring Justice Smith that he will call on. him about the matter soon. |