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Show IC1SE M GO UP TO FEBE10FFICULS Judge Reeder Declines to Pass Vagrancy Sentence, Pending Investigation. Special to Th5 Tribune. OGDEN, Feb. 26. Believing that tlic matter may he a subject for federal Investigation. In-vestigation. Judge V. IT. Reeder refused to pass sentence this morning In the case of Daisy Montniguc and Loon Fields, convicted on chorees of vagrancy. Tho girl is a half-breed Indian, whllo Yields is a negro. When questioned by the court this morning the girl admitted her racial affiliations. , but refused to mention men-tion tho name of either her father or "'as a member of the Bannock tribe of , Indians, th0 girl Is a holder of land located lo-cated on Pocatello creek, near Pocatello. Idaho, from which she derives a revenue through leasing The Indian girl said she had received repeated requests fot her to return to her own people, who rc.-sldo rc.-sldo near Pocatello, but she preferred to remain In town. The possibility of a. violation of the white slave act may result from the recent re-cent trip of tile Indian girl and I'lelds from Pocatello to Ogdcn. Miss Montaigne told tho officers, and repeated it on tlic witness stand, that she had provided the money with which Fields made the trip, lie having told her that he had moiicv coming: to Mm for work as a cook "on the Oregon Short Line. The girl originally pleaded not guilty to the charge of vagrancy, but changed that plea to guilty when arraigned today. Fields pleaded not guilty and was tried In the police court this morning. When the Indian girl and Fields were arrested on lower Twcnty-llfth street by Sergeant Ser-geant H. C. Peterson and Patrolman T. 11. Blackburn. February 14. the colored man was suffering from delirium tremens. |