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Show 1 POLICE- COURT CASES 1 The docket of the police court for Wednesday's session was made up, with two exceptions, of those charged with drunkenness and vagrancy. T ' Ellen Schoppe, an old woman who has been before tho court on numerous other occasions, charged with vagrancy, entered en-tered a plea of not guilty and was sentenced sen-tenced to serve sixty days in the city ja.ll. The old woman afforded a pitiful sight as she stepped before the bar. Around her frail shoulders was drawn what at one time hnd been a handsome opera coat, but now threadbare and in tatters. Propped on the side of her unkempt un-kempt mop of hair was a shapeless summer sum-mer hat carrying a drooping black plume. She was cross-eyed, which lent her the took of a demon, and she was toothless. As she stepped before the bar her presence pres-ence was surrounded by a most intense and objectionable odor. The public prosecutor made his recommendations to the court. "Now, I never asked you for a cent, did J?" piped the old woman in a. shrill voice. The judge then pronounced sentence. sen-tence. "Sixty days, ha. ha, and I'll stay there all winter," said she. as she hobbled to her seal mumbling and laughing. r J. R. Hearst. Joseph Streckcr and William Wil-liam Peterson all pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness. and, It being their first offense, they were discharged. E. E. Hopkins pleaded guilty to the drunk charge and was given a floater. Henry King, charged with violating vio-lating the street ordinance, did not put in an appearance In court and forfeited bail of $2. Mary Morton was charged with vagrancy. It was recommended by Prosecutor Rogers that as she was understood under-stood to be a dope fiend nnd was in poor health, a sentence of ninety days would be a matter of charity, and she was given that number of days in the city jail. |