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Show Dope From the Police Court S. M. Del.i07.icr, who ndmits having forgnd the name of 1. A. Clayton to check for $50 on tho Inland Crystal Suit company, was bound ovor by Judge Bowman Friday to await tho action of the district, court. DcLoxicr passed tho check on tho Luxus bar and then-spent the money touring tho town in an automobile. au-tomobile. Ho hfifl $4 of tho money left wlin arrested. Judge Bowman fixed his bond ut $1000. P, Grandrett loves chicken to such an extent that he is willing to nay mora than $.'5 for one helping of that delicacy, deli-cacy, and tho end is not yet. While dreaming of the tasfo of cliiclvon stew. Grandrett wandered into the back yard dreaming of tho taste of chicken 'stew of J. S. Neilson a few days ago and lifted an old, but fai, roostor. Neil-son Neil-son had Grandrett arrested, and when tho trial came up before Judge Bowman Bow-man Grandrett, rather than tell his chicken story to the court, forfeited his bail of $10. But the court wantod to henr tho story, and raised the ante of Grandrett to $25. setting the hearing hear-ing of the cadi for Friday. Upon that day, rather than tell his Btory before a crowded court room, Grandrett again forfeited his bail for $25, but, Judge Bowman would still like to hour tho story and another charge mav bo added ro locale Graudrett. - Three youthful prisoners, charged with horso stealing, were bound over Friday morning by Judge Bowman to tho Third district' court. Tho youths are charged with grand larccncy and neithor one is moro than 20 years of age. They arc A. Beckstead, William Morgan and John Y'oungberg. V Matt M'urphv and John Bergstrom had their trial set for July JO. They were arrosted for attempting to dispose of four steam valves that belong to the Sutton company. Both of the men claim that tho valves were found by them in the joadway. P. Thing, manager of the com pa 113'. identified the vnlves as belonging to tho company, but said that; ho could not swear that; they were stolen from the premises of tho company. Bond of $'600 required in each case. M h "Show mo the man who hit Mike iMcGann!" is not the titlo of a popular popu-lar song, but the question which was raised after .fudge JJowman and all of the ofllrials of his court had wrestled with the case of AlcGanu in the police court Friday. Here is the story of Me-Ganu: Me-Ganu: jMcGnun stated that on Sunday uighl, June -I, while ho was going to his home and walking along West Temple Tem-ple street, between North and South Temple streets, at 11:10 o'clock, he snot two men, one named Ward and the other named Murphy. Murphy was a stranger, but McGann had known Ward for a long time and had always been on the best of terms with him. A few moments after the men had mot, according ac-cording to LMcGann, Ward had naid to McGann, "T've been waiting for you a long time, McGnnn. and now .1 Jvo got you," and then, according to Me-Ganu, Me-Ganu, some one turned off the lights. McGnnn swears that Ward hit him in the head with a sandbag and relieved him of all of his valuables. McGnnn swears that tho last thing ho heard w.as Ward saying, "He's got a watch aiid chain loft Get them, for he won't need thorn any more." Comes now the story of Ward, which a searching examination ex-amination could not shake. Ward said that tho last time ho had seen Mc-Gann Mc-Gann on that particular Sunday was at 4 o'clock in tho afternoon, and that at .10 o'clock that night, ono hour before be-fore the assnult took placo, ho had gone to his room and retired for the night. This testimony was substantiated by Ward's landlord. Inasmuch as ovory o'no connected with tho case had told a straightforward storj-, Judge Bowman was unable to locale the guilty party and Ward was discharged. But that did not explain who hit McGann. |