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Show POLICE COURT CASES) The greater part of the Wednesday afternoon aft-ernoon session of tho police court was occupied oc-cupied with the Jury trial of Lizzie Graham, Gra-ham, colored, charged with vagrancy. Attorney At-torney C. B. Dlehl and Y. W. Little for tho defense, had demanded a jury trial for their client, and the following jurors were chosen: James Ilarcombe, Ira F. Waldcn. John Mann and Jeremiah Buckley. As has been general In these classes, the matter of establishing reputation of women wom-en and places of abode wero discussed. Chief of Detectives Gcorgo Sheets, Detectives Detec-tives Janney and Howeds testllled that they knew the woman to bo u vagrant. The defonso brought forward witnesses to testify that the woman was not a vagrant. va-grant. The jury finally rendered a verdict of not guilty and tho defendant was discharged. dis-charged. o Fred Nelson, an elderly man, beforo the court on tho charge of drunkenness, said that he was a machinist and engineer by trade and was discharged. Ho told tho court that ho had only taken two drinks and that ho thought they must have been doped. O. E. Moody entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of keeping a vicious dog. The easo was continued until Friday, by which llmo Mr. Moody promises to have the dog sent to Bingham. It Is alleged that the dog bit a child. w Art Thomas, who said that ho was not In the habit of getting drunk often, was .discharged. The case of B. W. Hlntso, who. while drunk, resisted an officer in Farrlngton'a livery stable Monday morning, and otherwise other-wise made himself disagreeable, was continued con-tinued until Thursday afternoon. f 4i B. IT. Abel, charged with drunkenness, nnd who, tho public prosecutor remarked, had been beforo the court several times before on petit larceny charges, was sentenced sen-tenced to thirty days in tho city Jail. Louis Marger. charged with drunkenness, drunken-ness, was found guilty and sentenced to thirty days In the city jail. Thoro was an Incident of interest at tho Wednesday morning session of court. Edward Smith, known to tho police as "Whltle," nnd arraigned on the charge of attempted burglary, upon being confronted by his mother and sister In the court room, broke down and wept llko a child The mother also cried, and among tho |