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Show PLEA OF ALSATIAN WINS HijREEDOM Judge Reeder Hears a Personal Per-sonal Grievance of Ernest a Schneider. j Specie to The Tribune i OGDEN Aug 17 Frnest Schneider 53 eara of age an A sat lan who said he ! ad earned f ur medals for service in the French army and had also fought wtth i the Engl Ph d r ng he Boer war earned a h apended sentence 1 Judge W H ! Reeder s ourt th a -morning because he ! ha got someth ng to sett e with this kalee The prisoner who was ar ra gned on a charge of unlawful intoxl cation, was bubb ing o er with war talk He dec ared tbat e wants to take p arms aga nst th Germans because the k ed h s brother two weeks ago whle the latter was crossing the border ne Judge Reeder was len ent todaj and al owed Schneider to talk to h s hearts content It also developed during the pr b ner s con ersatlon that he has a warm spot n his heart for his fellow work ngmen As proof he threw open h b coat, disp aylng only an undershirt When asked what he had done with his other shirt Schneider said he had given t to a fellow prisoner who needed it M ke Miller who was also before the bar of Justice ver fled Schneider's story by d splaying the latter s shirt. In rep y to a question regarding his chan es of enisling Schneider dlsplaed a let er from the French consul at San Fra c sco asking him if he would like to volunteer for serv ce The prisoner said he had not only answered that letter in he affirma ive, but had written to his s s er and brother In law who live In A sa e for enough money to purchase his transportation back to France Be fore departing the talkative Alsatlari I prom sed to send Judge Reeder a post ard when he reached France. |