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Show Ij 1 BN POLICE COURT i Grace "Webster, a rather pood -looking i nesrees, was before bin honor In tho po- l lice court Thursday afternoon on a charge of disturbing the peace. Grace pleaded d.j guilty and was fined $10. which she paid. j'1 Grace is moro white than black, and i, when she entered a local cafe and or- P dcrcil a meal It was nerved to her. After- f1 ward it became known that she was "not J '' what she looked to be," and she was if' .-inked to pay for her meal anrl leave ',; Thereupon she let loose with a variety of llreworlcs which would hardly look good fj in print. The police were notllkd and ! Grace was landed In the cooler, where she I has had an opportunity to think matters over. ', Grace addressed the court, making- what J she termed a "plea" In her own behalf, , but which sounded strangely like some- 'A thing else. The court stopped her "ar- ,' gument" and Imposed tho line. Grace ' (j left tho courtroom with her nose high in b i 11,0 alr t .lack Sexton, arrested Monday evening r by .Patrolman McMartln on a charge of ', petit laceny. asked that his rase go over r until today, when lie will enter his ,j pKi. lie is accused of- breaking into a I room at the Elko rooming house, from which he walked away with ?S In his 3 pocket, not his property. He Is said to have confessed to the police. ' 1 At tho morning session of court J. W. jj Davis, a negro, charged with robbery. I was clven his preliminary hearing. Owing ' Hi lo the fact that certain witnesses were ij not present the case wan continued until ,i this morning. Frank Burkhart claims . k Unit Davis stole ?n from him in a Com- l moielal street rosori Sunday. Octobor 21. |