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Show Dope From the Police Court In .Tudgo Bowman's court Monday morning, vagrants, as well as the ''mashers" who have been nccosting women on the streets of tho city, met with no mercy at the hands of Judge Bowman. U H A. B. Walker was fined $25 for disturbing dis-turbing the peace, aud after listening to the' evidence in the case Judge- Bowman Bow-man made the following statement: "This business of men insulting women on the streets of tho city is going to be stopped if I can stop it. The sentence sen-tence of the court is that you pay u fine of $2 or be confined in the city jail for twenty-five days.'' A. B. Al-fcron Al-fcron was out walking on the street with his wife and had stepped into a cigar store to light his cigar. While his wife -was waiting on tho outside. Walker stepped up to tho woman and asked her to go walking with him. When the irate husband arrived on the sceno ho requested an ollicer to walk Walker to the police station. ' George Williams and John Moore, negroes, ne-groes, who had been arrested and charged with vagrancy, appeared in Judgo Bowman's court Monday morning morn-ing and pleaded guilty to tho charge. Thev were both given floaters, and stated that thej- would leave the city at the earliest possible moment. Charles N. Asher, a white man, who was on tho polico list of undesirables, was also given a floater and promised to "beat" it. Charles was brought before be-fore the masked detectives after the fixing of the sentence, and in tho event that he is found in tho city Tuesday morning he will get his, , Charles Sullivan, who is alleged to be a local union plumber, on strike, was arraigned before .Judge Bowman Monday Mon-day morning and pleaded guilty to the charge of battery. lie was lined $15. When the case of John Peterson, who returned recently from Idaho af tor being be-ing porsuaded to return by tho oln-ccrs, oln-ccrs, came before the court, the court dismissed the action. Peterson was charged with failing to support his fa mil v. f. i. Anthonv Woods, who was arrested soveral d'avs ago, charged with a iol-onv, iol-onv, was released after the court had heard tho testimony, in tho case. J he doubtful tale told by Sovlin Bradou, 11 years of age, and her brother, was tho cause of the dismissal. Jack Bnr-dett, Bnr-dett, arrested on a similar charge, pleaded not guilty and had his trial set for September 3. i When tho case of James Sandol was called, James failed to appear ami a bench warrant was issued for him. James, whilo under the influence o1 liquor, bpgan a demonstration of his prowess along tho Sandow line in a Commercial street saloon a few nights ago, and in the course of the demonstration demon-stration tried to break a door by putting put-ting his fist through it. The proprietor of the saloon objected to the demonstration, demonstra-tion, and .Tamo's tried to put his fist through the proprietor. James stands six feet and is built in proportion, fo the proprietor ran out into the street and asked Patrolman Carlsburg for assistance. as-sistance. Carlsburg is a small man, but he had no troublo in haling James to jail. ' . Clerk Gutch raised his voice in vain when ho called for Henry Johnson, William Mara and William Desmond. Tho men were charged with being drunk, and left bail of $5 each. i Mike Simmons was not so fortunate. He admitted that whilo he was drunk he had battered the face of J I. Sato, a Japanese, last Saturday night. Judgo Bowman gave him ten days in jail for tho offense. Tho rich brogue of Mike O 'Grady and his oratorical ability were of no avail with Judge Bowman, vho sent him to the rock pile for ten days. Thomas Cook admitted that he had taken more than he could carry comfortably, com-fortably, and he might have been released re-leased had it not been for the fact that Assistant City Attorney Rogers told tho court that the man had been begging on the streets. " "Thirty dollars, or thirty days," was the ultimatum of tho court. When Titanic West told the court that he had taken the booze aboard to quell the pain of an awful toothache, the court, after determining determin-ing that lie still had tho tooth, as well ns tho ache, allowed him to go aud look for a dentist, i Nick Tvagn did not believe in wonr-ing wonr-ing out the tires of his ice cream cart on the streets of the city and preferred to trundle the cart along tho sidewalk. Judgo Bowman impressed on the mind of Kngn hy n fine of $5 that the sidewalks side-walks wrc for tho pedestrians, and not for vehicles of any kind. a u Because they had left their teams untied un-tied on the streets of the city, James Bo3'd and Alvin Blake wore" arrested on Sunday, and each left bail to the amount of! $2, -which was declared forfeited for-feited when they failed to put in an appearance. Tho court was not as lenient with S. M. Castle, who, after being arrested, told the officers that he had no money for bail, but, if released, re-leased, would appear in court Monday mo.rning. The court issuod a bench warrant, with the order that Castle be required to put up $35 to insure his appearance in the court when wauted. |